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...South Korean Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, it was an all too familiar story. Last week, the day before the New Korea Democratic Party, the government's main opposition, was to open a two-day convention, a Seoul police official arrived at Kim's house and told him to "stay at home." "This is totally illegal," protested Kim, who received a 20-year suspended sentence for a 1980 sedition conviction. Last February, in just the same fashion, Kim was put under house arrest for four weeks after his return from more than two years of self-imposed exile...
Researchers are hunting for clues to why one person develops the disease while others merely harbor the virus. Some investigators suspect that additional viral infections may play a role as accomplices or triggers. The main suspects: Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus (both members of the herpes family) and the virus that causes hepatitis B. The difficulty, says Lange, comes in determining whether such viruses are in fact co-agents of AIDS or merely tagalong infections...
...posing. The new exposure helped her land her first acting part, in the current Los Angeles stage revival of the musical Sweet Charity. "Acting and modeling are the same kind of thing," she contends. "Instead of projecting to a camera, you have to project to a live audience. The main thing is the addition of words." Right. Also, don't forget to take your...
...cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
...Force servicemen and civilian employees at the Rhein-Main Air Base call it the gateway to Europe, and with good reason. Located opposite Frankfurt International Airport, Rhein-Main is almost a city unto itself, the largest and most vital link in the U.S. military airlift command. For that reason it is a prime target for terrorists. Last week they struck with a vengeance, setting off a car bomb that killed a 19-year old airman on temporary duty and the wife of another airman assigned to a medical airlift squadron. Twenty-one people were injured...