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...money and resources to find a solution, but we lack the willpower. We must not leave this problem for the next generation to inherit. Daniel Greenhalgh Stavanger, Norway Forget about Bill Gates' billions or AIDS-awareness programs or new drugs. Loose morals and poor foresight can allow AIDS to spread out of control. No amount of financial or social support can alter this. Only a change of heart by individuals and modified behavior can save humankind from this pandemic. Ike Eslao Laguna, the Philippines Your report on India's denial of an AIDS crisis was very appropriate. The much-hyped...
...western Cameroon: "We do not regard the Pope as a white man. He is an ordinary person sent to us black men." John Paul used his position to appeal for human rights and religious liberty. Though he had planned to downplay political issues on the trip, as violence spread in South Africa he repeated earlier denunciations of apartheid. In a speech to diplomats in Cameroon, the Pope then broadened the issue beyond apartheid by taking up the cause of all in Africa who suffer human rights abuses: "I would like to lend them my voice," he said...
Health workers administered about 80,000 doses of tetanus and typhoid vaccines. By the end of last week soldiers had set fire to piles of bodies and shot stray dogs and pigs to prevent the spread of disease. They arrested looters and bandits, but their actions often came too late. By the time the military arrived at the scene on Nov. 17, said one official, "just about all of the houses unaffected by the avalanche had been sacked...
Since the fame of William ("the Refrigerator") Perry has spread far and wide in recent weeks, no one should mix him up with Tab Thacker anymore, right? For those with a slim memory: Perry was a star defensive lineman at Clemson, class of '85, while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city...
Remember all the fuss over a 1981-82 survey professing to show that the news is being distorted by a liberal journalistic elite that is out of touch with the rest of America? Conservative pressure groups with lots of money to spend spread these charges far and wide. Recent cover stories in two professional magazines challenge the accuracy of the findings. But what is stranger is that the accusations no longer seem to matter so much, and the reason is Ronald Reagan...