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...tally of nations for which no major violations were reported: of the 82 countries that now receive U.S. aid, human rights seem to be alive and well in only 23, barely one-quarter of the total. The 23 states: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Israel (except the occupied territories), Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Venezuela and West Germany...
...Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle's test data. Another contender to succeed saccharin is a chemical called xylitol; used as a chewing-gum sweetener in tests in Finland and the U.S., it sharply reduced formation of cavities. But it costs more than sugar and has the same number of calories...
...Finland Station...
Except for a year in Finland on a Fulbright grant and a semester at Harvard, he has taught only in the South (Mississippi, L.S.U., Kentucky and now Texas). Among his few avocations is playing Frisbee with his wife of 30 years. Pat, and their five children...
...North Koreans have protested their innocence, and mission staffers in Finland insisted that they would not leave the country. Nonetheless, Scandinavian officials have little doubt that the smuggling was ordered by Pyongyang as a desperate measure to help resolve the government's horrendous financial crisis. Western experts estimate that North Korea, with a G.N.P. of only $4.5 billion, has a foreign debt of more than $2 billion, at least $500 million of which is owed to the capitalist world. North Korea not only maintains some 60 expensive missions abroad but also buys millions of dollars' worth of advertising...