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...Committee. Gorbachev may have decided that there was no point in shuffling the Politburo if the institution's days are numbered anyway. Current plans call for the creation of a Central Committee Presidium of about 30 members, presided over by a chairman and two deputies. In a bid to halt the secessionist trend begun by the Lithuanian Communists, the Presidium would include representatives from all 15 republics...
...virus. Working clandestinely, Patrascu went on to test children in three other cities, where the rate of infection appeared to be just as bad. In August, concerned that the epidemic was spreading out of control, he notified the Ministry of Health. To his dismay, he was told to halt testing immediately. A scheduled meeting on children and AIDS was canceled, and the programs were withdrawn from the presses...
...World Health Organization dispatched a public health team to Rumania to determine the scope of the epidemic. If infection is limited mainly to the children, a large supply of sterile needles and blood-testing kits could halt the spread almost immediately, said Dr. Jonathan Mann, head of WHO's Global Program on AIDS. But Mann is concerned that the new mobility of Eastern Europe's populations could lead to faster dissemination of the virus. Citing reports of prostitution in Rumania and heroin use in Poland, Mann called Eastern Europe "the new frontier for the AIDS epidemic...
...sharp disparity in performance? A close look reveals that the two sides of GM are organized differently, are pursuing divergent strategies and are characterized by utterly dissimilar cultures. GM Europe's success, in fact, speaks volumes about the ills of the domestic company and may suggest ways to halt its alarming slide...
Well then, comes the natural response, more and tougher sanctions are needed. That too is open to question. A major slowdown in South Africa could halt the growth of the skilled black work force and the development of black economic power, which have already caused irreversible changes in the apartheid system -- legalization of black unions, abolition of the internal pass laws, legalization of some nonracial neighborhoods. These developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform...