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...council member refused to give up. He regrouped, and worked hard to rebuild his image among council members. He proposed resolutions, stayed out of trouble and built himself a network of supporters...
...previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before...
...Yokohama Mayor Hidenobu Takahide, a former construction-ministry official, says baldly, ``The problem is that the government did not exert leadership.'' In a speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged that his government would ``waste no time in taking every necessary fiscal and financial measure'' to help rebuild the devastated area. But when he suggested that the relief effort had faltered because of the quake's unprecedented severity, loud jeers rang out from the opposition benches. It was widely reported that Murayama had learned of the disaster only two hours after it struck. When he toured Kobe, Tokyo...
...hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation. First put out the fire, he advised, then decide how to rebuild the house. His plea seemed more a public relations effort to put the onus for the continued bloodshed on Russia than a serious offer of negotiations...
...serious dialogue to take place between Blacks and Jews. Note that this event did not create the need, but inadvertently served to highlight the need for dialogue. We are now immersed in a desperately needed forum in which we can share our viewpoints and attempt to realize or rebuild common ground on the issues. Perhaps we can now work to create a solid and lasting alliance between Blacks and Jews that might serve to promote understanding and awareness amongst our groups on campus...