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Mondale will deliver a tough message to South African Prime Minister Vorster: either change the basic apartheid policy or the U.S. will take concrete action against the regime. Among the possible actions: tightening visa requirements, cutting back credits to South Africa from the Export-Import Bank, severing links between U.S. and South African intelligence agencies...
Laetrile has also been winning victories in the courts. A Kansas man who had rectal cancer testified that the compound, which releases cyanide in the body, is keeping him alive. A federal judge not only let him import the drug - available in Mexico, West Germany and other countries - but forced the reluctant FDA to hold its first public hearings on Laetrile. The two-day session in Kansas City, Mo., attracted 300 supporters, who continually booed and jeered the drug's critics...
...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...
Recapturing Volkswagen's former lead in the U.S. import market may be a more difficult proposition. The Rabbit faces plenty of subcompact competition-not only from other imports but also from new small cars to be brought out soon by Chrysler and American Motors. Some, ironically, will be powered by VW engines. One selling point for the Rabbits that will be made in Volkswagen's Pennsylvania plant: about 20% will be equipped with lightweight, fuel-stingy diesel engines, the first large-scale introduction of diesels to the American market...
...members of OPEC receive only 35 per cent of the retail price of oil, Jaideh said, adding the difference is made up primarily of import taxes...