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...problems faced by children of such parents begin before they are even born. Only one in five girls under age 15 receives any prenatal care at all during the vital first three months of pregnancy. The combination of inadequate medical care and poor diet contributes to a number of problems during pregnancy, says Dr. John Niles of Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington: "Teenagers are 92% more likely to have anemia, and 23% more likely to have complications related to prematurity, than mothers aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering...
Other long-festering dangers kept the world in turmoil. Terrorist murders and kidnapings became more brazen: the hijackings of TWA Flight 847 in June, an EgyptAir jetliner in November and the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in October were only the most spectacular incidents. Though governments did finally begin to fight back, their efforts illustrated the complexities and perils of antiterrorist action: the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers strained relations with Egypt and Italy, while 60 passengers on the EgyptAir jet were dead after Egyptian commandos stormed the grounded plane in Malta. But in Argentina the elected civilian...
...authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop. Factory bosses, in contrast, widely complain that they are still waiting for confirmation from local party and government officials that they can begin exercising the new freedoms they supposedly were granted at the start of 1985. For the first time, Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges of tens of thousands of national, provincial and local party bosses who are accustomed to exerting life-and-death authority over the economy...
...difficult of all will be navigating the murky waters of the Gramm-Rudman Act, the jerry-built scheme adopted last month that mandates automatic reductions in federal spending if necessary to reach specific deficit-cutting targets. The tumult caused by this unprecedented measure, whose constitutionality is under challenge, will begin almost immediately. On Jan. 10, budget officials in the White House and Congress will kick the law into force by producing an estimate of the current fiscal year's looming deficit, probably about $200 billion. To limit the shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman to order...
...Christmas tree ornament--profiles of James and Dolley Madison--by the White House Historical Association set a new record, 26,500 at $9.75 a bauble. Sheila Tate, who used to be Nancy Reagan's press secretary, was told that during the second term interest in the First Family would begin to decline. "It never happened," she said. Bill Henkel, the White House advance director for three Presidents who in other years used to have to work hard to get crowds, now just has to let people know where Reagan will be and there is instant enthusiasm. Requests for presidential appearances...