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...epidemic has clearly made married philanderers extremely wary. Few things cool extramarital ardor like the specter of passing on an incurable disease to a mate and then having to explain where it came from. A chemical engineer from New York knows how the one-night stand can go these days: on a business trip a beautiful woman invited him up to her room. He went, but was troubled by thoughts of herpes sores. He asked the lady outright. Her denial was not enough; he was impotent. "I wanted to go through with it," he confided to a friend...
...lifelong disease as a memento of the event. Some marriages and many relationships end in the discord and lingering suspicion caused by herpes. When only one partner has herpes, anger is a heavy factor, and so is emotional overload: the herpes sufferer leans too much on the mate and the tottering relationship collapses. Says Psychiatrist Elisabeth Herz of George Washington University Medical Center: "Don't expect to cry on the shoulder of the partner. That's what drives couples apart...
...breakfast with Reagan the next day, Prime Minister Thatcher, an ideological soul mate, positively glowed. "This has been a tremendously successful visit," she said. Some other Britons were less pleased. The Guardian, an intellectual left-of-center newspaper, called Reagan "a wonderful old smoothie" but, style aside, viewed his speech as cold war rhetoric. Though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party attended the Royal Gallery speech, many backbenchers boycotted it. Members of a left-wing faction held a simultaneous meeting to protest what they viewed as a simplistic, black-and-white approach to NATO-Soviet relations...
...Kennedy re-point all of the Yard's kiosks and "spiff up the rooms, and any miscellaneous areas that might be seen," but they look forward to the challenge. Sadberry explains. "If the alumni see what they like, they give more money," and he adds that he and his mate enjoy getting to know the alums during their coffee breaks and at various receptions. "We get a chance to dine with some people," says Sadberry with a smile...
...figure in this potential stale mate is Archbishop Runcie. He is probably willing to risk more for the sake of unity than any of his predecessors. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Runcie stuck to his view that "the Roman Catholic Church is overcentralized" but pointed to the usefulness of the papacy as "a focus for unity and affection" that was "given to Rome from the days of the early church." He believes Rome "can give a great deal to us in terms of doctrinal coherence." Runcie said that his central problem is this: "The idea [that] you have...