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...headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue come scores of U.S. periodicals which are examined by the speed-reading prelate (1,000 words per minute in English) and six assistants. Jadot briefs the Holy See on many subjects, from the controvery over women priests to such matters as American help for famine-stricken countries, the feelings of U.S. Jews about Vatican policies, even advances in the techniques of mass communications. Most dispatches go to Rome by sealed diplomatic pouch, but more urgent messages are cabled in the Vatican's own diplomatic code...
...strike 665,000 people and kill some 365,000 this year in the U.S. alone. Still, they are making significant progress against the disease. The American Cancer Society has announced that the incidence of several major cancers has dropped dramatically in recent years and that survival rates for those stricken with several forms of cancer are improving...
Outside of Eastern Europe, perhaps the Soviet Union's most notable satellite in the world today is the African republic of Somalia. A drought-stricken country of 3 million people, which achieved independence in 1960, Somalia has a 1,700-mile coastline on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, hard by the shipping lanes over which oil from the Persian Gulf is carried to Western Europe...
...assent of her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney Jr. Ruffian's death came as an enormous blow to the racing fraternity. But for sportswriters and just plain enthusiasts, it was a beginning of controversy over the cause of the accident and the quality of medical treatment the stricken Ruffian received...
...watch in Australian politics. A onetime detective and university lecturer, he was running the government in the absence overseas of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when a cyclone devastated the city of Darwin last December (TIME, Jan. 6). Cairns supervised the massive relief effort for the stricken areas so well that he was talked about as a possible replacement for Whitlam, who at the time was experiencing one of the popularity lows that have periodically marked his career...