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...with only aspirin to ease their suffering. But police say as many as 20 patients at the Veterans Affairs hospital sold their drugs to dealers. One patient convinced VA officials that he needed 60 Dilaudid a month to treat his severe arthritis. Another made a $1,200 profit, even though the going rate was $10 a pill, a fraction of the $25-to-$45 street value...
...activist President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has cut tariffs and lifted other barriers to open his country's sheltered economy. Now he seems ready to take his boldest step of all. Bush Administration officials disclosed last week that Mexico will consider negotiating a free-trade agreement with the U.S. Though the Government has agreed to a similar pact with Canada, reaching an accord with Mexico may prove much tougher. Mexicans fear the arrangement would threaten their autonomy, while American workers are worried that it could trigger a flood of cheap labor into the U.S. Even so, a free- trade accord...
...likely than the general population to get a rare, fatal cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But for some mysterious reason, the veterans who suffer from this cancer were predominantly sailors who were stationed off the Viet Nam shore and who had relatively little exposure to the defoliant. Even though the CDC could find no link between Agent Orange and increased cancer, Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski immediately authorized compensation for about 1,800 Viet Nam veterans who have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They will receive monthly payments...
Some fashion houses have thrived since their namesakes' deaths; others have struggled along. Chanel and Dior have prospered long after their originators passed on. The Perry Ellis lines continue, though on a more modest level, since the designer's death in 1986. His menswear and casual sportswear have done well, but the women's fashion business, a portion of the heart of any major couture house, has faltered. Williwear, Willi Smith's sports-clothes line, is doing a booming business. Says the designer's flamboyant sister Toukie: "There are hundreds of other talented young people out there, and the spirit...
...victims. But these are in limbo, largely because of the 1989 Supreme Court ruling in Florida Star v. B.J.F. The court overturned a $100,000 damage judgment against a Jacksonville weekly that had been charged with violating Florida's law by printing the name of a rape victim, even though she had been identified in a police report...