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...anxiety that continue to bedevil Americans. Indeed, the reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action...
...Aviation Regulation 91, which bans many noisy planes from U.S. air ports, is scheduled to go into effect. But for the 30 Caribbean, Central and Latin American as well as eight domestic airlines that fly to and from Miami with predominantly aging and noisy Boeing 707s, DC-8s and BAC-111s, the headaches will have just begun...
...three years of lycée are devoted to preparing for the baccalaureate exam, the nationwide test that determines at what level a student can enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand...
...Savary reforms would diminish the importance of the bac, since high test scores would no longer be required for the first two years of university education. It was announced this spring that the results of next year's bacs would not include the traditional levels of distinction, such as "very good" or "good." To many French educators, watering down the bac is as outrageous as watering down a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Says Guy Bayet, president of the university professors' association: "The bac is the only way you can oblige students to follow a program and acquire...
...small BAC 167 Strikemaster jet fighter, for example, "is now in service with twelve air forces throughout the world" and "offers a uniquely cost-effective solution for counter-insurgency." Is the client's country a bit underdeveloped? No problem: Strikemaster "has proved its ability to operate ... under actual combat conditions from primitive airstrips." The insurgents themselves might be interested in some of the wares. For example, the Blowpipe is a 44-lb. antiaircraft missile system that can be fired by a lone attacker. On one page is a "cratering kit," designed to blow 25-ft.-wide holes in runways...