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Other students have found the work unpleasant, partly because of rampant insect infestation...
...President will have to deal with the country's rampant corruption. Few federal or state contracts, for example, are awarded without payment of a "mobilization fee," which can amount to 40% of the contract. Shagari is personally untainted, but among those accused of corruption are some of the political barons who helped bring him to power. Says a Western analyst: "The question is whether Shagari has the courage to rein them in. If he does not, there could be trouble ahead...
...single, Be a Little Bit Gentle- and the derivative post-Beatles croonings of male stars like Shinji Tanimura and Motoharu Sano. Overwhehningly domestic in origin (Japanese performers account for about 70% of the record market), the pop world shows little sign of the some times violent creativity now rampant in the post-punk West...
...that might explain the situation in the war-torn area. Maybe, he suggests, chemical warfare not involving trichothecens, where bees, frightened by the airplanes carrying an agent, go out and defecate. Or perhaps bees are alone responsible for the spots known as yellow rain. Finally, he speculates, maybe the rampant disease in the area--combined with the long-standing reports and superstition about the use of chemicals in war dating back to the middle of the Vietnam War--have caused refugees to mistakenly allege that chemical warfare is being waged...
...outbreak of an epidemic* can provoke a primal panic by raising the specter of a rampant "Andromeda strain." Indeed, perhaps the most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear...