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Condoms may have proliferated lately, but not all of them are created equal. So says the March issue of Consumer Reports. Investigators checked 40 brands and 16,000 individual condoms for leakage and strength. When the prophylactics were filled with ten ounces of water, the test used by the U.S. Government, all brands managed to pass. But researchers got different results when they filled condoms with several quarts of air, the standard required by such countries as Denmark and Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test...
Last week India's Supreme Court unexpectedly announced a settlement of all claims against the chemical company at a price that surprised and angered many Indians. Union Carbide has agreed to pay the Indian government a lump sum of $470 million by March 23. The money will be distributed by a special commission. In exchange, India will drop all criminal charges against the company as well as against Anderson, who retired in 1986. "It's a fair and adequate settlement for the victims," said Michael Ciresi, an attorney who represented India in its suit against the firm...
...middle of a freezing night. He got them into a draw, pulled some dead grass over their small, steaming bodies and saved them. But last week he looked out over his bare, parched winter- wheat fields and worried. "If we don't get some moisture soon, the March winds will start blowing away some real estate...
Last week the Warsaw weekly Odrodzenie published a secret wartime report produced by the Polish Red Cross and uncovered two years ago by a historian in Britain's Public Record Office. The report set the date of the murders between March and May of 1940, more than a year before the first German troops arrived. Polish officials, who presented the document to a joint Soviet-Polish commission investigating the Katyn massacre, had become increasingly impatient with Soviet procrastination...
Moreover, a certain Ignat Danilchenko, who was interviewed by the Soviets, said that Demjanjuk was a guard at Sobibor from March 1943 to 1944--the same time the five Israeli witnesses say he was at Treblinka. The OSI has refused to release information from this interview as well...