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...story on the Indian government's failure to acknowledge the enormity of the country's AIDS problem and how that is hampering the fight against the disease prompted calls for more concerted action...
...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 to fend for themselves. Writing to government officials didn't do much good. It is sad to be an Indian and be affected by the denial of our officials in dealing with AIDS. We need to respond to this terrible epidemic. I am frustrated by the plight of my fellow countrymen who are unable to get the AIDS drugs they are entitled to. John Lall New Delhi...
...Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies and eavesdrop on the exquisite ironies of Indian-born Novelist Salman Rushdie. Beside the reflecting pool, the gifted throng could contemplate the imaginations of two great states: a perfect theocracy that maintained its inflexible slave system even in the afterlife, and a permanently unfinished republic whose contentious factions offer possibilities still to be imagined. --By R.Z. Sheppard. Reported...
...chairmen. Organizers stress, however, that "this is a people's event." A North Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans and players...
With a little luck, the sprawling, sparsely populated country that lies just northeast of South Africa on the Indian Ocean should have thrived. It is blessed with rich agricultural lands, large mineral deposits and untapped reserves of natural gas and oil. But the Marxist-oriented government of President Samora Machel, who came to power in 1975 after the departure of the Portuguese, has had little opportunity to exploit these resources. In little more than a decade, everything that could have gone wrong in Mozambique has gone wrong...