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...rate of infection rising rapidly among black and Hispanic intravenous drug users, AIDS may become a predominantly minority disease. -- Reagan and Central American leaders present rival peace plans for Nicaragua. -- Jesse Jackson, once the angry outsider, is courting white voters with a new moderate image. -- L. A.' s rash of highway homicides continues...
...past month, a rash of death threats to politically active refugees in Los Angeles has sent a wave of apprehension through the city's Central American community. Threats against 24 people have been reported to the police this month by Salvadoran activists who are working against the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Hoarse voices with Salvadoran accents leave ominous messages on answering machines: "For being a Communist, we will kill you." One activist received a list with the names of 19 refugees targeted for killing along with a menacing handwritten note saying, "Nothing will save you. Death, death. Flowers...
...Tehran in a confrontation that Paris newspapers dubbed the "battle of the embassies." At the center of the controversy was Wadid Gordji, 34, an interpreter at the Iranian embassy. French authorities, who believe he is actually a high-ranking Iranian intelligence official, recently tried to question him about a rash of / terrorist bombings in Paris last fall. At the time, the French assumed the attacks were the work of a Lebanese clan seeking the freedom of a jailed terrorist. Now it appears they suspect the Iranians...
...level of public concern about ethical issues waxes and wanes; Watergate prompted a reassessment of ethics in government and the Vietnam War provoked a rejection of American militarism. Today, the Wall Street insider trading cases and the rash of corporate takeovers have sparked a scrutiny of business ethics...
...longtime friend and colleague described a more personal side of Loury, saying he is "immature" and rash and intensely leader of the Black community. The friend added that Loury had "a self-destructive personality" which sometimes led him to seek risk and excitement in defiance of social norms...