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Last week that apathy vanished. The catalyst was dramatic television footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring in to such relief agencies as Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America and Grassroots International. All have been issuing warnings of the impending disaster in Africa for years. The U.S. Government added $10 million to the $35 million already allotted for food aid to the beleaguered country, doubling last year...
...grim tidings came in the form of polling results read to him by James Johnson, his campaign chairman. The unflappable Johnson was matter-of-fact, but the numbers could hardly have been worse. Not only had the Democratic challenger failed to gain on Ronald Reagan after the second debate, his last clear shot to catch up, but he had fallen even further behind. Said Johnson: "It looks very tough." By Wednesday, Mondale's daily tracking polls showed him trailing Reagan by 16 points, a dispiriting 6-point drop in the four days after the debate...
...presented her document to the public, her male colleagues-Amado Dizon, Luciano Salazar, Ernesto Herrera and Dante Santos-visited Marcos to give him a copy of their version. They were coldly received. For an hour they were kept waiting in the dining room of the presidential palace. Then a grim and unsmiling Marcos saw the four "Agravatars," as members of the panel are known, just long enough to bid them a chilly thank-you. He remained seated behind his desk when they rose to leave his study. "I hope you can live with your conscience," he told his visitors...
...hope in this grim picture is the rapid pace of research with the newly identified AIDS virus. There is now little doubt that the viruses isolated by the Pasteur group and by the NCI team under Dr. Robert Gallo are the same microbe. They are, however, slightly different strains, "like two brothers," explains Jean-Claude Chermann of Pasteur. Though a few questions remain, most researchers are now convinced that the virus is indeed the primary cause of AIDS. The evidence is compelling...
...very clear. The question is why the students in this debate were unable to raise these points and why the audience loved this failure. If this inability to analyze and clearly state the issues is the best that Harvard and Yale can produce, we are in for several very grim decades. If the audience's reaction toe student debate is an indication of the level of thought and rationality in the Harvard community at large, the void is too terrible to contemplate. Frederick J. Horne...