Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catastrophic health care was only the first problem addressed in assisting the chronically ill who desperately need help in paying for nursing-home and home health care. As the population grays, those demands will grow. But paying for programs projected to cost $30 billion to $50 billion a year will take sizable increases in taxes on payrolls, gifts and estates. Moreover, ; Washington will need both compassion and political gumption to achieve so- called generational equity. The sometimes stentorian American Association of Retired Persons ably represents America's elderly, but it should not be allowed to drown out the softer voices...
...many, the invisible nature of radiation does stir emotions and feed paranoiac imaginations. Yet by operating for so long behind veils of secrecy, the weaponsmakers have left a void of perception that is all too easy to fill with worries that may or may not be exaggerated. In certain ill-defined and perhaps unknown quantities, radiation in the air, soil and water can, of course, be deadly. Some of its forms may persist for many centuries. As federal officials and fiercely independent private contractors finally step out of the nuclear closet and seek vast sums to clean up the mess...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...accused launderers knew their business well, authorities say. By rapidly shuffling ill-gotten cash through a kaleidoscopic array of banks and shell corporations around the world, BCCI allegedly obscured the source of the money, then returned untraceable, "clean" funds to narcotics kingpins. Said a senior U.S. Customs official: "It has given us a window into the world of international money laundering like nothing we've had before...
...prospect is ominous, however, for indebted developing countries that can ill afford a collapse in the value of their oil exports. In Algeria, falling oil revenue and prolonged government austerity measures have been blamed for triggering the recent riots that have killed as many as 400 people. Mexico, which relies on oil for 40% of its total export income, expects that oil revenues will fall below $6 billion this year, compared with exports worth $7.8 billion in 1987. As a result, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid has announced $220 million in new cuts in the government's $90 billion...