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...fear of AIDS," says Michael Wilson, president of Houston's KS-AIDS Foundation. Instead, some apparently release their sexual energies through masturbation, pornography, and sex by phone. The Advocate classifieds list several numbers that offer a seductive voice on the other end of the wire, payment to be made by credit card. "Horny? Call Your Adonis," says one ad. Sales of gay porn have risen, and video cassette recorders have never been so popular. "The party's over," said one New York gay as he was about to attend a memorial service for yet another casualty. "You just stop having...
...concealing film on one of California's new instant-winner lottery tickets and discovered he had won $1,000. How bitter he was when he learned that none of the money would be his to enjoy. All of his winnings were confiscated by the state to go toward payment of a $2,100 child-support debt. Moaned the winner-loser: "I don't mind seeing my debts reduced, but I would have rather made the decision myself...
Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi conduct all litigation, including financial cases, through Islamic courts. That presents banks with a particular problem because Muslim law forbids riba, the earning or payment of interest, on the ground that it is usury. For years the Muslim world quietly allowed the ban on riba to be circumvented by letting the banks call interest payments service charges or commissions. But these days, when Saudi borrowers are handed a bill for interest charges or commissions, they may take refuge in Islamic law and refuse to pay. Banks are left with little means of getting their money...
Yurchenko described how CIA officials tried to buy his cooperation by offering him a $1 million payment plus $62,500 a year for life. The agency, he said, was even willing to throw in the safe house's furniture, worth about $48,000. He met with Casey over dinner at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, but claimed he did not recall the conversation very well because he had been drugged before the meal by agents eager to make Casey think he was a willing defector...
...order to finance its attempts to prop up prices, the tin council during the past several years borrowed nearly $500 million from 16 international financial institutions. The creditors, though, are setting tough terms for any future loans. Last week they said that they would postpone the dates for payment on past loans and offer short-and long-term financing needed to keep the cartel afloat, but only on condition that their loans were guaranteed by the 22 governments that make up the council...