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...help AIDS patients cope, volunteer organizations like GMHC have popped up around the country, most of them organized by gay-community leaders. GMHC, founded in 1982, provides various services, including crisis intervention, a hot line that answers 3,000 calls a month, group-therapy sessions for patients and their survivors, and financial and legal services. Most successful of all, and widely emulated, is GMHC's buddy program, which assigns a volunteer to befriend an AIDS patient, helping him to shop, cook, clean his apartment and to feel less forgotten and shunned...
...Mafia leader who later turned state's evidence. A deeply shocked Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi immediately summoned his top security officials for an emergency meeting. At midweek an 800-man force of police and carabinieri was flown to Palermo. Declared the city's mayor, Luca Orlando: "We cannot cope on our own. Either there is national action against the Mafia, or Palermo and Sicily will be lost...
...from watches to supercomputers, are playing the role of the Grinch. They will shut their doors for up to three weeks next month, a time when workers normally expect year-end bonuses and office celebrations. The painful closings are only the latest steps that chip producers are taking to cope with a slump that has crippled the once booming high-tech industry. "There's no end in sight," says Richard Billy, an analyst with the Gartner Group, a computer-research firm. "The bloodbath will continue...
...time when the world is trying to cope with international terrorism, superpower tensions and starvation in Africa, has so much furor erupted over what is, after all, merely a change in a soft-drink formula...
Another way the Saudis are trying to cope with their cash squeeze is by cutting government spending. This year's budget reduces military outlays 20%, to $17.8 billion, softening the Saudi market for U.S.-made weapons and stirring worry in the Pentagon over the kingdom's defense capability. Subsidies on food, electric power and gasoline are down 20%. The Riyadh government is also slashing money for new industrial projects. Two refineries worth $1.5 billion were canceled after 15% of the construction had been completed. Particularly hurt by the cutbacks are American and South Korean contractors who have been building...