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...Conservative Digest, the conference was a grand opportunity for the disaffected right to bash, of all people, Secretary of State George Shultz. Wearing stickers emblazoned with an umbrella (to commemorate British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who sought to appease Adolf Hitler), some 150 delegates accused Shultz of being too soft on terrorists, too warm to the Soviets and too cool toward freedom fighters in Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique...
Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed...
...abandoned, South Africa should forsake its policy of creating "independent" homelands for blacks and instead should consider itself a unified country and all its people should enjoy the rights of citizenship. The South Africans were told that there would be no change in the policy of "constructive engagement," the soft-sell diplomacy that the U.S. has practiced toward Pretoria since 1981. But they were also told that the Reagan Administration, like the Botha government, was under some political pressure to get South Africa moving in the direction of reform. The U.S. representatives noted that an economic-sanctions bill is currently...
...them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon's l-in.-sq. tumor, a method called microscopically controlled surgery was used. The process calls for the removal...
...other patrons through holes cut in the walls. Because of the dearth of zoning laws, the porn traffic, instead of being centered in one "combat zone," as in Boston or Washington, turns up everywhere, even near churches, schools and nurseries. "I think Houston is getting a reputation for being soft on this kind of thing," says City Councilman Frank Mancuso, whose district is littered with user-friendly sex enterprises...