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...Wise seems to have forgotten, or perhaps he never knew, is that not all who test positive for the HLTV-III virus will develop AIDS. Does he suggest that millions of Americans be in terned for 50 or 60 years? Perhaps all those people can be sent to Madagascar or Martha's Vineyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Not Isolation | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...economist, she had compiled a distinguished record as president of the finance commission in the lower house of Parliament and served on the board of directors of a major Zurich retail chain. As the wife of a prominent Swiss psychiatrist and the mother of three adopted children from Madagascar, Uchtenhagen has a touch of the hausfrau that, it was thought, would make her acceptable to her male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated her to fill a vacancy left when one of the two Social Democrats on the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Ladies Last | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...infinitely harder to win enemies than friends, and harder still to hold on to them. Remember: the subject is real enemies, not just those pests of whom one thinks with a dull, bored ache from time to time, or those whose irritating presence makes one pine for Madagascar. A real enemy is in a different league. He is a hated hater, a mirror image of one's meanest desires. He wants to do unto you exactly as you would do unto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Making and Keeping of Enemies | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Maxime Victory Rafransoa, 46, a native of Madagascar with impeccably ecumenical credentials: he was baptized a Congregationalist, raised a Presbyterian and confirmed a Lutheran. More important, in contrast to his flamboyant predecessor, Rafransoa is soft-spoken and diplomatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dollars and Diplomacy | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...much of Yamashita's day was taken up by discussions with employees that only 32 minutes were left for reading and desk work. The president usually has a business lunch. On this day, it was with the visiting Ambassador from Madagascar and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daily Samurai Duel | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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