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More than 20,000 new cases of AIDS have been reported this year and those figures are expected to double by next year, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop told a capacity crowd of 700 people at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said last night...
Last week, in the Public Health Service's annual report on smoking, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that so-called involuntary smoking -- simply breathing in the vicinity of people with lighted cigarettes in enclosed areas -- can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy nonsmokers. Children of parents who smoke, the report stated, have more respiratory infections than children of nonsmokers. Infants of parents who smoke are hospitalized more often for bronchitis and pneumonia than babies in nonsmoking households. Furthermore, the Surgeon General warned that the risk of involuntary smoking may not be eliminated by separating nonsmokers from smokers...
...known as contras. And for most of that time, the Honduran military has looked the other way. On Dec. 6, however, Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo shattered that arrangement by ordering his air force to strafe the Nicaraguan positions inside the country. Later that day, Azcona summoned U.S. Ambassador Everett Briggs and urgently appealed for U.S. logistical support. President Reagan responded promptly, authorizing an airlift. Last week U.S. troops flying twin- rotor Chinooks and Huey helicopters ferried hundreds of Honduran soldiers to within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border. At the same time, Honduran pilots strafed targets inside Nicaragua...
Public Works Director, Everett R. Kennedy, who made recommendations to Healy after the hearing, said: "Pat's Tow's work for us had been satisfactory, and I saw no reason to cancel the contract...