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...French-built Con Son, 140 miles south of Saigon in the South China Sea, for political reeducation. Of the 8,945 prisoners there, 6,467 are considered Communists. Due to a steady diet of beatings-as well as sand and pebbles in the rice-dysentery, tuberculosis and chronic stomach disorders were common. Water was limited to three swallows a day, forcing prisoners to drink urine. Those who pleaded-for more food were splashed with lye or poked with long bamboo poles...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...
Europe, of course, is not yet paradise. The Continent still lags well behind the U.S. by the standard measures of wellbeing, but is catching up (see charts). Income is still distributed inequitably, with many poor people within the richer member countries of the Common Market and widespread chronic poverty in the poorer nations of Italy, Britain and Ireland. All too many homes in the slums of Glasgow lack baths and hot water, and in France thousands of working-class families can afford meat only once or twice a week. Throughout the Common Market, however, social benefits help to compensate...
...world. The U.S. has exported new technology and management methods and, above all, has shown national rivals that it is possible-and highly profitable-to market on a continental scale. But benefits always involve costs. America's continuing export of capital is a major factor in the chronic turbulence of the international monetary system. Last week, a mere fortnight after the second devaluation of the dollar in 14 months, Europe's major foreign exchange markets closed to prevent further massive speculation (see page...
...Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...