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With no other way to turn, desperate AIDS patients may be led by the premature French report to try potentially dangerous experiments with cyclosporine. Says Laurie McBride, president of San Francisco's Lesbian and Gay Chamber of Commerce: "This feeds into what we're calling the second epidemic--the epidemic of fear...
...eight-hour session, Peres was adamant that the U.N. speech violated no such policy. On Monday in the Knesset, he railed against anyone who would "pile obstacles on the road to the peace process." Legislators apparently were impressed. By a 68-to-10 vote of the 120-member chamber, they endorsed a resolution in support of Peres' U.N. speech before voting down the Tehiya no-confidence motion...
...boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
Craxi's actions also alienated someone else: his Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini. The leader of the small (29 members in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies) Republican Party within Craxi's five-party coalition, Spadolini had grown increasingly unhappy with Craxi's foreign policy in the Middle East, which in the Defense Minister's view was increasingly pro-P.L.O. and ( excessively anti-Israel. But what bothered Spadolini even more was that Craxi made the decision to release Abbas without consulting him. Incensed, the Defense Minister announced in advance that he would not attend a Cabinet meeting that Craxi...
...with his own billboards urging NO CHANGE OF POLICIES. When the ballots were tallied, it was found that a majority of the nearly 7 million Belgians who went to the polls had chosen continuity over change. Martens' four-party, center-right coalition won 115 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives, up from 113 seats held previously. A Christian Democrat from the country's Dutch- speaking Flemish region, Martens now has a slightly stronger mandate to continue the policies he began upon taking office in 1981. Among them: the deployment in Belgium of 48 U.S.-made, nuclear-armed cruise...