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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
There is one other remarkable thing about these families. By 18 months, children normally lose the antibodies acquired from their mothers, and about half of them become HIV-negative. "I was so happy I could've gone and shouted on the rooftops," says one mother, whose child tested negative. "But you can't." The practice, when children turn out healthy, is to move them away from the AIDS foster families into permanent homes, making room for more AIDS babies. Thus what the foster parents risk is loving the children and having to give them away, or keeping them to love...
...gets a whole new Deighton trilogy, beginning with Spy Hook. Line and Sinker are the titles of the projected other novels, suggesting an activity more passive and a lot murkier than tennis. In this new work, Deighton's temptingly baited plot lines run dark and deep. The first half offers more nibbles than bites as Samson discovers just how little his bosses want him to know about their intelligence operations...
...patriarch, Saddam Hussein. So his countrymen were stunned last week when he publicly disclosed that he had imprisoned his eldest son Odai, 25, for bludgeoning a presidential bodyguard to death with a club. Saddam has apparently dealt harshly but secretly with kinfolk before. Five years ago, three of his half brothers mysteriously disappeared, reportedly after plotting a coup...
...pump is used to force out air from around the penis. The resulting vacuum draws blood into the penis until it becomes rigid. Rubber bands are then slipped onto the base of the penis to keep the blood from escaping; the bands can be left in place safely for half an hour. The vacuum machine costs about $450. Urologist Perry Nadig of San Antonio has followed 340 of his patients who have used the device, some for as long as six years; fully 80% of the men are satisfied with the results. Morton Perrin, 76, of Durango, Colo., whose impotence...