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Last week Bonn strengthened its demand for the return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for vengeance. Except for Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who underwent a televised trial and execution, relatively few former communist leaders have been prosecuted, and none executed...
...real enemy is recession." So far this year, wholesale prices have fallen at a 1.7% annual rate, a trend that will give critics of the Fed more leverage in arguing for interest rates even lower than Greenspan has already pushed them. And as the 1992 elections approach, the political clamor for easier credit may grow deafening...
Much of the clamor is unavoidable because it fills work sites or public places. As many as 10 million Americans are exposed daily to on-the-job noise that could gradually cause some degree of permanent hearing loss. Sixty million Americans endure other noise, including the cacophony of city traffic, that is louder than the level the Federal Government deems safe, and 15 million live close to busy airports or beneath heavily traveled air routes. In some neighborhoods of northern New Jersey, more than 1,000 flights thunder overhead each...
...clamor for tacrine, also known as THA (for tetrahydroaminoacridine), started in 1986 when the New England Journal of Medicine reported a study in which 16 of 17 patients given the drug had shown marked improvement. The results seemed miraculous, but they made scientific sense: the brains of Alzheimer's victims have abnormally low levels of acetylcholine, a chemical that carries impulses from one nerve to another. Tacrine inhibits production of an enzyme that breaks down the chemical messenger, thus presumably making more acetylcholine available...
...from what Minter can see, at least, conservative dissenting voices, like AALARM (Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality), are having no problem making their voices heard. She wonders whether all the clamor over alleged silencing by the left isn't merely masking a still significant level of intolerance and insensitivity throughout American campuses...