Word: generality
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Koop says no one should be surprised, that the report is consistent with his moral view that you can hate sin but love the sinner. "I am the Surgeon General, not the chaplain, of all the people, and that includes homosexuals," he says. He outraged conservatives again in January. Although opposed to abortion morally, Koop concluded, following an 18-month study undertaken after President Reagan promised right-to-life leaders a report, that the evidence just wasn't there to condemn the practice as psychologically harmful...
...Philippines just before and during the Japanese occupation. Ralph Graves, who knew the islands as the teenage stepson of the U.S. High Commissioner during 1939-41, re- creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after Pearl Harbor and the struggle to survive until General Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return. Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly LIFE and a retired editorial director of Time Inc., deploys a diverse cast of characters (American, Filipino and Japanese) whose fates are joined in a narrative that combines the observations of good journalism with the emotional impact of perceptive...
...tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation to the U.S. "They felt that all the killing would draw a protective shield around them," observed Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. "It was religious craziness...
Under the original agreement reached last November, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would design the fighter (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) in cooperation with St. Louis-based General Dynamics. The deal guaranteed U.S. contractors 40% of the $1.2 billion development budget and allowed access to the secrets of advanced Japanese radar gear and composite materials. But Bush wants further assurances that American firms will receive 40% of the $5 billion to $10 billion in production contracts for as many as 170 fighters, which are to be deployed in the late 1990s...
Accompanying the profile of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in this week's issue of TIME is a photograph taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. It is a particularly apt pairing of artist and subject: Koop has been one of the most outspoken leaders in the fight against AIDS, and Mapplethorpe, an AIDS sufferer since 1984, by publicizing his illness helped raise awareness of the disease in New York City art circles and beyond...