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...RDAs. Says Lynn Parker, senior nutritionist at the Food Research and Action Center in Washington: "The recommendations could have potentially devastating effects on federal food assistance programs." But the academy panel carefully dissociates itself from all such possible eventualities. "This is a scientific document," explains Pennsylvania State Nutritionist Helen Guthrie, a member of the panel. "How the policymakers use it we can't control...
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...this particular gala also had its grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor...
...advantage in the desperate bid for recognition by the President. Another wore a red-white-and- blue stocking cap set off with blue lipstick. A few male contenders looked suspiciously as if they had blow-dried their hair and patted on a bit of makeup. The U.P.I.'s veteran Helen Thomas blinded them all in a frock with patches of blue, orange, raspberry and green. "We'd better get a fire extinguisher," said Press Secretary Larry Speakes. Portraits of George and Martha Washington stared down on sound technicians who padded below in their Nikes. With the lights full ablaze...
...almost any other society, such reforms would seem barely adequate at best --and decades or even centuries overdue. But in South Africa, they were seen as significant cracks in the structure of "grand" apartheid envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Helen Suzman, a veteran antiapartheid Member of Parliament, called the proposed changes "probably the most important step forward in 30 years." Botha had said nothing about parliamentary representation for the black majority, she conceded, let alone the right to vote. But, she said, "the abolition of pass laws and influx control, to my mind, is something that should...