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...foreword to his report on AIDS, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has some blunt words of advice for Americans: "If you are participating in activities that could expose you to the AIDS virus, this report could save your life." The Surgeon General is not exaggerating, as the 36-page booklet confirms in most explicit terms. Some pertinent excerpts...
...prisoners were captured in North Africa early in the war and were members of a division formed of leftist political dissidents routed out of German prisons and sent to fill out Rommel's army. But those who returned to Stark, tracked down over the past four years by Allen Koop, a professor of American and European history at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., had been ordinary soldiers, 18 or 19 years old, captured by U.S. troops in Normandy in June and July of 1944. Some 300,000 German prisoners were shipped to camps in the U.S. during...
...stories, old faces. The reunion party motored a couple of miles away to the site of Camp Stark, now nothing but a clearing at the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, a couple of tumbled stone fireplaces and a new highway marker sketching its history. Historian Koop, who had organized the affair and is writing a book about Stark, spoke of "rugged hills and gentle people" and quoted the truthful remark of one old resident that "yup, things have been kinda slow since they closed the camp." Hartmut Lang, a young official from the German consulate in Boston, said...
Speaking at a symposium called, "Tobacco, Smoking and Health Policy," Koop was joined by Thomas Schelling, director of Harvard's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, and two other health policy experts...
...Koop called smoking the "leading preventable cause of disease and death in this country," and expressed hope that leaders of the tobacco industry could learn to thrive in a business environment "that enhances life and not the kind that invites death...