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...best way to avoid all types of skin cancer is simply to stay out of the sun, especially during the peak-intensity hours of midday. For those who cannot resist its lure, doctors urge the use of sunscreens designed to block ultraviolet radiation. People who have already had a basal-cell carcinoma run a 25% risk of developing another and must be especially cautious. Last week Reagan admitted that this advice was "a little heartbreaking ... because all my life I've lived with a coat of tan, dating back to my lifeguard days...
...Hussein's government last spring. Included in the package were about 40 advanced F-16 or F-20 jet fighters and a dozen Hawk antiaircraft missile systems, items looked on by many U.S. legislators as threats to Israel's security. Seventy-four U.S. Senators cosponsored a resolution to block the weapons sale. Nonetheless, the White House blithely announced early last week that it would go ahead with the deal unless both houses of Congress voted it down within 30 days. With just such a prospect beginning to appear likely, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana engineered...
When the ensuing siege was over more than 24 hours later, some 100 people had been killed. Among them were Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes Echandia and ten other judges, almost half of the country's Supreme Court. All of the guerrillas, including their leader, Luis Otero, perished. The block-long Palace of Justice was a smoldering ruin...
...theme has been the bombing in Philadelphia last May of the headquarters of Move, a radical cult. "American authorities recently gave the whole world a demonstration of their democracy," TASS declaimed, "when they publicly slaughtered more than a dozen black-skinned inhabitants of Philadelphia and bombed a whole city block." The Soviet press, however, omits any mention of the fact that the mayor of Philadelphia is black and that the bombing has provoked much soul-searching in addition to searing criticism and lengthy hearings and investigations...
JAPAN. The focus of the American protectionist furor is Japan, which racked up a $37 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year. Trying to curb that imbalance, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has moved in 1985 to modify regulations that block imports and has gone on national television to urge the Japanese people to buy foreign goods. Nakasone also hopes to spur imports by stimulating the Japanese economy. Last month the government unveiled a program to boost real estate development and ease restrictions on consumer loans...