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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each of 44 groups throughout the county. Private hospital programs have grown so fast in the 1980s that some experts guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics and residential programs that depend on a mix of private donations and government funding are jammed to overflowing; tales of three-month waiting lists to get in are common. Last year Washington counted a mere...
Seeking a way to reach his generation, Paul Simon finds in South African songs the fire for his intrepid new album, Graceland...
...hijackers, it was hard to see how their action had remotely advanced any Palestinian political aims, which include the recovery of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They had failed to spring their allies from prison in Larnaca or even to reach Cyprus themselves, and their murderous misadventure in Karachi had turned into a bloodbath that antagonized Pakistan, a Muslim country that has always been sympathetic to the Palestinians' demands...
Word of the tragedy did not reach the town of Wum, just ten miles west, until late the next afternoon. A government employee who had been motorcycling to Nios from Wum first discovered the disaster. When he came upon a dead antelope, he thought he had had a stroke of luck, and happily strapped the animal to his bike. But when he got closer to Nios, the impact of what had happened struck him as he saw more and more bodies of people and animals. Fighting back dizziness, he returned to Wum. Late that day, his ghastly report finally reached...
...promptly loaded onto the Prime Minister's Israeli air force Boeing 707, and a 17-member army medical team was hastily assembled to accompany the official party. Although the Israeli group landed in Yaounde last Monday, the crude internal travel conditions made it impossible for the medics to reach victims hospitalized in Nkambe, some 60 miles from the disaster zone, for another two days...