Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Because doctors commonly believe that the causes of impotency--the inability to achieve erection at least 25 per cent of the time during attempted intercourse--are psychological, they usually treat it solely as a psychological problem. But the study states that "psychotherapy has not proved to be consistently effective in alleviating impotence...
...real problem with Cruising is Friedkin's inability to deliver what should have been a brilliant thriller about sex and death. This film muffles a potentially explosive premise. In order to trap a psychopathic murderer who preys on gays, Cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) adopts a fictive homosexual identity and blends into the rough S-M scene. Gradually he zeroes in on the killer, but not without paying a weird price: Burns begins to lose his real-life grip on heterosexuality...
With that dramatic call to action, former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt this week presents his long-awaited report on the Gordian problem of relations between rich and poor nations. With a barrage of chilling statistics and often eloquent prose, the 1971 Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
...North-South problem as presented by the 225-page report is both serious and growing worse. World stability and peace are threatened by the disparity between industrially rich but sometimes materials-poor nations concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere and the industrially poor but often materials-rich, the yearning, the demanding, the mostly non-white nations in what is roughly called the Southern Hemisphere...
...erecting trade barriers against the developing world's new exports, such as shoes, TV sets and clothing. Most poor nations can escape from poverty only if they can find buyers for some of their manufactured products as well as their commodities. The report states bluntly: "A key problem, which has to be solved if long-term world growth is to reach and stay at higher levels, is that of access to Northern markets for the South's manufactures...