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...effectively as a sharp rapier. I watched him charm a dinner table in June this year, a mixed group that included the coach of football's Dallas Cowboys and a Hollywood magnate as well as the guest of honor, Madame Jayewardene, wife of the President of Sri Lanka. She was very shy and ill at ease, but President Reagan, though tired from a day's travel, quickly sensed her anxiety and took it upon himself to entertain her. He talked of the handicapped whom he had just been visiting; she discussed Sri Lanka's problems with drugs...
...heady days of the 1960s, international health authorities thought they had it licked. The enervating fevers, the trembling chills, the splitting headaches and the appalling child-mortality rates were on their way out. Malaria, exulted the World Health Organization in Geneva, was defeated in Europe, banished from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and on the run in India and Pakistan, thanks to the effectiveness of drugs and insecticides. Even in Africa, it stood to go the way of smallpox. They could not have been more wrong. Today more than half the world's people live under the threat of malaria...
...classic illustration of Darwinian evolution: a handful of mosquitoes that were DDT-resistant and a tiny number of parasites that were drug-resistant had survived, multiplied and defeated the best efforts of modern science. Malaria returned with a vengeance. In just four years, the incidence in Sri Lanka rose from 18 cases to more than a million. The entire eradication program backfired, says Dr. Kenneth Warren, director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. "It's the worst mess in medicine...
...venomous that they seem too extreme for even the Ku Klux Klan. "African Monkeys!" says one. "In Los Angeles our own Olympic flames are waiting to incinerate you." The shocking notes arrived at the Olympic Committee offices of at least five countries-Zimbabwe, China, Malaysia, South Korea and Sri Lanka. Although the letters, one postmarked in Maryland, are on paper with a Ku Klux Klan logo, the State Department suspects that Moscow was their real source. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, who was in Asia last week: "It makes you wonder if it is a disinformation campaign...
...beauty pageant here in Miami. Of course, the messy dish they call "tacos" does not compare with your kielbasa, but I can't believe that is why some of the girls got sick and had to go to the hospital. And I must admit that poor Miss Sri Lanka left early; she was so homesick. I missed Poland too, but oh how I wish you could have seen the wonderfully decadent Western luxuries bestowed on the new Miss Universe, a sweet 21-year-old nurse from Sweden named Yvonne Ryding. She started with breakfast in bed and will soon...