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New forms of birth control are desperately needed, and a few are slowly appearing. Last year a French pharmaceutical firm introduced RU 486, a drug that helps induce a relatively safe miscarriage when given to a woman in the early stages of pregnancy. Another recent arrival is Norplant, steroid-filled...
Sputtering burning fuel, a large chunk of the fuselage struck a hill outside Lockerbie, then careened into a gas station and two rows of houses, gouging a 20-ft.-wide crater in a roadway. In the center of town, an aircraft engine lay embedded in the street. Sixty bodies were...
Of more immediate importance for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are the domestic effects of the quake. The enormous costs of rebuilding Armenian towns and villages will be a serious setback to perestroika, his program of economic restructuring. The political aftershocks are already severe. Even before the tragedy, Armenians distrusted Gorbachev...
So, too, for the Democrats. They begin each presidential cycle convinced that they have at last redefined their ideology, risen above the folly of faction and rediscovered the magic formula to create a national majority. The jaunty confidence of the Atlanta convention and the euphoria that accompanied summer polls pointing...
THE PUBLIC. From the outset, there were few signs that the nation was breathlessly anticipating this year's campaign. Lulled into passivity by an era of peace and paper-thin prosperity, the voters never displayed much interest in confronting the largely abstract problems, from environmental hazards to the trade deficit...