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...Bill Gates' billions or AIDS-awareness programs or new drugs. Loose morals and poor foresight can allow AIDS to spread out of control. No amount of financial or social support can alter this. Only a change of heart by individuals and modified behavior can save humankind from this pandemic. Ike Eslao Laguna, the Philippines Your report on India's denial of an AIDS crisis was very appropriate. The much-hyped distribution program for antiretroviral drugs has not functioned properly. In April the organization People Living with HIV/AIDS in Manipur didn't get its supply of medicines, and patients were left...
Mikhail Gorbachev had every opportunity to behave in the worst Soviet tradition, fuming and pounding like Nikita Khrushchev did to Ike and Kennedy. He did not. "This is not going to happen today, or tomorrow or in the future," Gorbachev said. Even when he was asked about Andrei Gromyko's characterization of him as a man with "iron teeth" behind a nice smile, Gorbachev declined the old role. "It hasn't yet been confirmed," he said. "As of now, I'm still using my own teeth." Reagan's friend freedom was surely watching, and Gorbachev felt...
...more than just TV, claims the President's pollster Richard Wirthlin. "Reagan made a difference in people's lives," says Wirthlin, whose latest polls show Reagan with 70% approval, 14 points higher than Ike at the same time in his presidency. Wirthlin's study of overseas opinion shows the same enhancement...
...Scouten moved from the Secret Service to the White House staff as deputy to the chief usher, who is in charge of running the physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement...
...time we graduated, Ike had been elected, and there wasn’t as much political value to it for the Republicans,” Halberstam says. “Academic freedom was soon to be replaced as the top campus issue by civil rights and, some years later, by Vietnam...