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...been strong, especially in Asia. In India children command a price three times that of older women, in part because of a common belief that sex with a virgin or a child cures venereal disease. "Having sex with children provides a greater sexual thrill to many men," explains I.S. Gilada, secretary-general of the Bombay-based Indian Health Organization. "They find it more titillating, and it gives them an added sense of power." To feed the sex market, tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 are recruited in Bombay and other cities; many are devadasis, "slaves...
...whether to take preventive action. Dr. D.B. Bisht, director- general of Indian government health services, complains that other "high- priority programs will suffer because of pressure to divert funds from them to anti-AIDS programs. We can't afford this, since there is no evidence of AIDS." Dr. I.S. Gilada, secretary of the Indian Health Organization, considers this a head-in-the-sand attitude. "There is no special immunity to AIDS that Asians enjoy," he says. "By the time we diagnose the first case, it would have spread like wildfire." Gilada's view matches that in the world health community...
...obsession with verbal precision, concentrating instead on the practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki...
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