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...their first comprehensive statement on the AIDS crisis, the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops last week announced a considerable concession to the disease's grim reality. Despite the church's continued opposition to the use of condoms by married and unmarried persons alike, the bishops will now reluctantly accept the publicizing of information on the devices in public- education campaigns and school classes. Some people simply "will not refrain from the type of sexual or drug-abuse behavior which can transmit AIDS," the bishops acknowledged. But, they stated, AIDS education must emphasize that to stem the disease, "abstinence outside of marriage...
...Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level...
Field Hockey: First Team--Charlotte Joslin, midfielder. Second Team--Erin O'Brien, back; Jane Grim, back. Honorable Mention--Cindi Ersek, forward; Kate Felsen, midfielder, Lisa Cutone, forward...
...looks ahead, Goldsmith sees grim possibilities. He thinks the U.S. leaders may be "surrendering their economic power to Japan and military power to Moscow." But then doubts recur. He clutches again at his amber and gnaws on the butt end of a cigar. "I used to be so sure," he says. "Now I'm in a period of total lack of certainty...
...political picture in the Philippines also remains grim. Byzantine intrigues continue to be launched against Aquino. To distract the nervous capital, her enemies on both the right and the left freely sow sensationalist rumors among Manila's 28 newspapers. The city's coffee shops and political salons cultivate witticisms to poison the President's reputation. One favorite is a Spanish pun on the name Corazon C. Aquino. With a finger at the chest, the speaker says, "Corazon, si" (she has a heart); with a finger at the head, he continues, "Aqui, no" (here, nothing...