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Bennett, the editor of the Harvard Medical School health newsletter, said the relative hazards of the extra-mild cigarettes still are unclear, but added that there has been an alarming increase in the past 15 years in the number of young women of child--bearing age who are smoking...
...Ronald Reagan's past suggestions for using American force abroad betrayed a simplistic world view that could lead to war. As in his previous assaults on the Republican, Carter struck with a hyperbolic intensity that threatened to obliterate his point; some of Reagan's recommendations were pretty mild stuff, and he has qualified others years ago. Even so, Carter is determined to keep up the attack, and the question of which man is more likely to keep the world at peace is central and could conceivably prove decisive in the presidential contest...
...mild-mannered and bespectacled, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 55, seems the very antithesis of the stereotypical boisterous Nigerian politician. But when the former school-teacher speaks, people listen. The reason: he is the leader of a country that boasts Africa's biggest population (90 million), largest standing army (130,000) and a G.N.P. of more than $50 billion. As one African diplomat puts it, "Whenever there is an important African issue, everyone waits to see what Nigeria decides. You can oppose it, but you must always take it into account...
...first speech to the nation, the mild-mannered Ulusu emphasized that his government's first order of business will be a drive against political terrorism. A new martial law decree issued last week left no doubt about that goal. It bans all strikes, demonstrations and political meetings and empowers the military authorities to shoot to kill in the pursuit of suspected terrorists. To the shock of Turkey's traditionally free press, the new government imposed strict censorship...
...discreet eye for the truth of a scene. Anyone who has spent time on the sea knows that nothing, in terms of observation, is missing from his images of Truro on Cape Cod, like The Martha McKean of Wellfleet, 1944. From the humping blue of the water to the mild sun on the belly of the gaff-rigged sail, it is all there, immemorial, as permanent as the way the gulls face into the light...