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...facility was built in 1975. That promise showed both neighborliness and self-interest, since the dam's chief customer will be South Africa. Altogether, the encounter may have reflected a new willingness on the part of Pretoria to pursue conciliatory policies toward its black neighbors abroad while continuing to crack down on opponents of apartheid at home...
Growing numbers of pregnant women who cannot stay off crack are causing a new wave of drug-damaged infants...
...birth the babies display obvious signs of crack exposure -- tremors, irritability and lethargy -- that may belie the seriousness of the harm done. These symptoms may disappear in a week or more, but the underlying damage remains. While the long-term effects of crack are unknown, Stanford's Fulroth points out that children born with small heads often have lower than normal I.Q. levels by ages three...
...often, that is difficult to do. Crack mothers who show up at hospitals have often smoked up to the last stages of labor. Many are so high they do not notice when labor begins. Says Fulroth: "The crack cocaine mothers are the sickest you're going to see. They come in right when they're ready to deliver, and you just hold your breath waiting to see what you're gonna get." The message is clear: for expectant mothers -- and their babies -- crack is a nightmare...
...roles. The Seoul Games will be the first televised in the U.S. in 16 years that will not be presided over by Jim McKay and the other familiar mainstays of ABC Sports. Thanks to a bid of $300 million for the rights, NBC is getting its first crack at an Olympics since the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan. (Before the U.S. withdrew, NBC was scheduled to televise the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow...