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...adult sexual traits, including menstruation at age seven. "When you see four cases a day of an uncommon condition, then you know something is very wrong," declares Pediatric Endocrinologist Carmen A. Sáenz de Rodriguez of San Juan. Adds Dr. Adolfo Pérez Comas of Mayagiüez: "We are seeing children with deep emotional problems. Their whole development, not only in the physical sense, has been accelerated...
After 48 hours of rising artillery exchanges, the Iranian high command last Tuesday night broadcast a coded message: "Ya Saheb ez-Zaman! Ya Saheb ez-Zaman!" (Translation: Thou absent Imam!) That was the order for as many as 100,000 soldiers and militiamen to begin the march toward Basra, Iraq's second largest city and the nerve center of its oil-producing region, and to engage an Iraqi army of about the same size. "Operation Ramadan" had begun. The first Iranian goal appeared to be the capture of Basra and much of southern Iraq, from which the invaders could either...
...devout Roman Catholic, a sculptor and onetime professor of art and art history, he gave up his academic career in 1974 to found and head Argentina's Servicio Pazy Justicia (Peace and Justice Service). The group is dedicated to human rights throughout Latin America and to what Pe>ez Esquivel describes as "both spiritual and moral support, and practical aid for those who suffer." Specifically, that means organizing help for the needy in the continent's sprawling slums and its impoverished countryside. A disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, Pérez Esquivel also formed groups dedicated to nonviolent social...
...have to own."). His preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever attitude that keeps everything running. It's all very pleasant. New cars...
...will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, as head of the Central Bank; and Ramón Báez Romano, 49, a onetime Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzmán is determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After the inauguration, the new President kept Vance and Young waiting while he purged...