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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the speech, Bhutto pointed to her experiences in Pakistan, praising international response to the dictatorship which her regime succeeds. Bhutto was elected prime minister in December, four months after the sudden death of General Mohammad...
Last week, as 11,000 physicians, scientists and health officials gathered in Montreal for the fifth International Conference on AIDS, evidence was building that Mason could be right. While AIDS is still cutting lives short, early intervention with new drugs is lengthening the time between diagnosis and death and offering the hope that a full life for the disease's victims may some day be possible. Said New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph in Montreal: "We are very close to turning the corner on this epidemic." But there is a price tag to this success. Medical bills...
...drugs are extending lives, but it is uncertain whether they are adding decades of productive life or merely postponing by a few years the eventual calamity of early death. And many of the lives being lengthened are either dangerous to others or sexually isolated and childless. Says a 27-year- old military officer infected with the virus three years ago: "Meeting / someone to marry is going to be very difficult. And being celibate is not easy for anyone." Still, says Belinda Mason, "every day is a gift...
...about to happen, and they see little that the U.S. can do to head it off. Says a White House official: "The U.S. has no influence over the Chinese government's behavior. Zero. None." A presidential adviser explains, "For the Chinese leaders this is a battle to the death, and they're not particularly interested in what we think of them...
...succession of pieces by well-known names (Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde) and then to such acknowledged modern masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together by a common trait, an irresistible claim on attention, the written equivalent of a tug at the lapel or a hand on the shoulder. This book can be picked up and put down many...