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After the laughter the waves of dread...
Baker will need a lot of help from private bankers to achieve his goals. The proposed $20 billion in new commercial-bank lending for the Third World represents only a 2.5% increase above this year's level. Nonetheless, most bankers dread making any new loans to developing countries, where they already have mountains of risky loans outstanding. To encourage new lending, Volcker has suggested setting up a so-called superbank that could speed up loans by commercial banks to the debtors...
There are 946,000 children attending New York City schools, and only one of them--an unidentified second-grader enrolled at an undisclosed school--is known to suffer from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the dread disease known as AIDS. But the parents of children at P.S. 63 in Queens, one of the city's 622 elementary schools, were not taking any chances last week. As the school opened its doors for the fall term, 944 of its 1,100 students stayed home...
...that appears indifferent to the Decalogue or the strictures of St. Paul, one in which a disease like AIDS, a "syndrome," is as morally indifferent as a hurricane: an event of nature. Beyond that argument, which itself now seems ancient, it is probable that in most minds a vague dread of the disease is accompanied by a sympathy for those afflicted. Sympathy, alas, is usually directly proportional to one's distance from the problem, and the sentiment will recede if the virus spreads and the sympathetic become the threatened...
...MORE PEOPLE get arrested outside South African embassies, as more and more South African officials are prevented from leaving buildings, as more and more college administrators begin to fear that their buildings will be occupied by student activists, there is one inevitable confrontation on this issue that I already dread: the 1988 Olympics in Seoul...