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...victory in the May 6 elections, Duarte was greeted warmly in West Germany last week, met with cordiality in Paris, and invited to visit Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. That marked a decided change in attitude by the West Europeans, who have long shunned El Salvador as a chronic human rights violator. So bad were relations that in 1979 West Germany suspended aid to El Salvador, and in 1980 the European Community cut off its milk donations to the country...
Nuclear war is a low-grade chronic dread in the back of the mind, Soviet churlishness a high-grade pain in the neck. And yet some deep though elusive process of healing seems to have occurred over a period of years in the American psychology, and the Fourth of July, 1984, may have been one more expression...
...decline. For five years, the question of how to deal with Britain's demand for a cut in its disproportionate contribution to the Community's common budget had all but paralyzed its ability to act on other pressing matters. Among them: the Community's chronic funding difficulties, its unfinished task of dismantling the remaining trade and investment barriers to a true common market, and the challenge of narrowing the technological gap between Western Europe on the one hand and Japan and the U.S. on the other...
...Editors: Your article on chronic pain [MEDICINE, June 11] touched on the basic ingredient that we who try to alleviate pain have found to be essential: compassion. Richard M. Linchitz, M.D. Medical Director Pain Alleviation Center Roslyn...
...could be done to alleviate my agony. Three weeks as an inpatient at St. Louis University's Pain Management Program taught me how to live with my pain through such methods as biofeedback, physical therapy, exercise and relaxation. I now attend biweekly meetings of the local chapter of Chronic Pain Outreach, a nonprofit support group that provides speakers who help us cope with our problems. Robert C. Lucas Brentwood...