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Sharon's song is not the first hit about child abuse. Last summer Folk-Rock Singer Suzanne Vega reached the Top Ten with Luka, a more understated and artful approach to the topic. Nonetheless, the mournful plea of Dear Mr. Jesus clearly strikes a chord. "You can go on with child-abuse announcements and public service all you want," says Buddy Scott, program director for WBBM-FM in Chicago, "but this song causes an emotion in you that you really are not prepared...
...Aquino, "should reassure all peace- loving Filipinos that our country is headed for much better times." But judging the rebel will be a challenge for her. Within hours of his detention, posters went up around Manila's Roxas Boulevard demanding AMNESTY FOR GRINGO. Aquino is unlikely to honor that plea. She holds him personally responsible for the 53 people killed and the more than 300 injured on Aug. 28, one of them her only son, Benigno...
Despite its encouraging intentions, the real test for the panel will come in the next six months, as it makes its final recommendations. Many wonder if the commission's plea for solid data about the extent of the epidemic conceals a resolve to broaden mandatory testing. Last week prospective immigrants to the $ U.S. joined military personnel, blood donors and other groups now required to submit to AIDS testing. The commission tabled discussion on AIDS education until February in spite of widespread agreement among health professionals that educational programs are the most effective way to combat the disease. The panel...
Even though Henshaw was acquitted, "It was a case where there was evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the defendant," said Rhode Island's Assistant Attorney General, Robert E. Craven. He said a trial was necessary because Henshaw "was not willing to plea bargain in an way acceptable to the attorney general...
Days later, Dr. George Selidovkin, a radiation specialist at Moscow's Hospital No. 6 who had been part of the Chernobyl medical team, arrived in Brazil after receiving an urgent plea from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The ten most severely irradiated patients, dressed in protective clothes, gloves, boots and caps, had already been flown aboard a military plane to the Marcilio Dias naval hospital...