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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRAVELS (PBS, debuting Oct. 2, 8 p.m. on most stations). Worn out from the Days of Rage ruckus, PBS returns to more placid pleasures. This twelve-part series will follow different travelers on unusual journeys around the globe...
...part, this attitude reflects Bush's deeply ingrained caution about doing "something dumb," as Baker put it last week. It also suits the hard-line doubters, like NSC deputy Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Vice President Dan Quayle, who think Gorbachev is only a short-timer and the Soviet Union will never really change...
...trip was part of a five-week, 4,000-mile journey across China by special correspondent Kramer for this week's cover story. His reflections accompany our 27-page gallery of photographs from the new book A Day in the Life of China. Says Kramer: "I saw a great people whose lives could be so much better if their political system was less oppressive...
Accompanying Kramer for part of the journey was Beijing reporter Jaime A. FlorCruz. A graduate of Peking University, FlorCruz has reported on China for TIME for nine years. When he visited the U.S. for the first time last month, he found himself constantly fielding questions about last June's student massacre in Beijing. Even a Broadway night out offered no respite. "I took my wife to see the play Les Miserables," he says. "Watching the portrayal of the French students at the barricades, I was thinking of the wide-eyed youth in Tiananmen Square...
...manufacturing AZT, in part because of the colossal expense of producing a drug that would be helpful only to a relatively small group of people. Scientists believed at the time that AZT would be effective only for those suffering from full-blown AIDS, and they were confident that more effective AIDS drugs would soon supplant AZT. As a result, the Government invoked the Orphan Drug Act, a law passed in 1983 to give pharmaceuticals makers financial incentives to develop treatments for rare diseases. The law allowed the Government to give Burroughs Wellcome an exclusive seven-year license, to commence when...