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...intelligence officials told The Washington Post last week that Israel had given ballistic missile technology to South Africa in exchange for uranium for Israeli nuclear bombs. The previous night, NBC broadcast television footage of Israeli military officials on assignment in South Africa...
...also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling Center was three times the number who came during the same period in the previous year...
Thus, when the World Psychiatric Association met in Athens last week, one of the most controversial issues on its agenda was whether to readmit Soviet psychiatrists, who resigned in 1983 rather than face expulsion for human- rights abuses. Eager for acceptance, the Soviets made an eleventh-hour acknowledgment that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred for nonmedical, including political, reasons...
Metropolitan Pitirim was appearing on a new weekly show called Thoughts About the Eternal: Sunday Moral Sermon, which a layman had inaugurated the previous week. Pitirim's commentary, though as innocuous as a sermonette after an American late movie on television, was nonetheless historic: the first time in 72 years of Communist rule that a clergyman's sermon had been broadcast. Coming six weeks before President Mikhail Gorbachev's scheduled meeting with the Pope at the Vatican, the show underscored Soviet leaders' increasing tolerance of religious practice...
...Byrne said his new albums are not a total departure from his previous work because rock, pop and rhythm and blues have exposed people to a "healthy dose" of African tradition--which has a great influence on Latin American music...