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...lecture it was argued that to assure the public that there would never be transmission by any other route was to invite future trouble as the attendant press coverage of such an event would be damaging. The argument made was that even if documented such cases would not alter the overwhelming fact that infection is not casually transmitted. The photo caption "AIDS can probably be contracted through casual contact" may provide a sensational effect, but is a dangerous distortion of the presentation--exactly the type of misperception warned against...
...once again, the U.S. government is inflexible to reasonable compromise where Central America is concerned. The Latin American ministers met with a cool response from Shultz last month in Washington. The Reagan Administration refuses to alter its unremitting campaign against Nicaragua. As one leading official is reported to have said, "Contadora's document of objectives includes pluralism, democracy, and reconciliation. How do you get the Sandinist Communists to agree with that? The answer seems to me clear, and it is pressure." Military pressure, of course...
...high school, many Harvard students found they could commit themselves to a variety of extracurricular reponsibilities and still hold down a part-time job if they had to. Once they get here, however, they discover a variety of new factors that generally alter the way they spend their time. In the first place, school is much more demanding. And it costs much more, so that three quarters of the student body gets some kind of job. Finally, the extracurriculars tend to be more intense...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
...third initiative, Reagan directed Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III to consider calling a world monetary conference to discuss whether to alter the free-market system of setting currency values...