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García had no choice politically but to resist foreign creditors. Peru's fragile democratic government, only five years old, must contend with a rebel guerrilla insurgency as well as an economy in crisis. Inflation runs at 250%, and about two-thirds of the labor force is either unemployed or working part time. Worst of all, García alleges, wealthy Peruvians have been frantically buying U.S. dollars and putting money into bank accounts abroad. To stop this capital flight, García shut down Peru's banks after he became President. When he allowed them to reopen two days later, accounts...
...making a vaccine) 100 to 1,000 times as fast as quick-changing flu viruses. As a result, he says, "trying to develop a vaccine for AIDS is like trying to hit a rapidly moving target." Scientists are now searching for segments of the coat that seem to resist change, hoping to use them to create a vaccine that would remain effective against more than one strain of AIDS. But even the most optimistic experts think that an effective vaccine is still five years...
...best way to avoid all types of skin cancer is simply to stay out of the sun, especially during the peak-intensity hours of midday. For those who cannot resist its lure, doctors urge the use of sunscreens designed to block ultraviolet radiation. People who have already had a basal-cell carcinoma run a 25% risk of developing another and must be especially cautious. Last week Reagan admitted that this advice was "a little heartbreaking ... because all my life I've lived with a coat of tan, dating back to my lifeguard days...
...their sponsorship of client states in the Third World. For the U.S. it is a question of Moscow's riding roughshod over one of the fundamental understandings of détente. At their 1972 summit, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a declaration of principles that committed both sides to resist the temptation to "obtain unilateral advantage" over each other. But when the U.S.S.R. began moving into Africa in the mid-1970s--particularly into Ethiopia and Angola, which figured so prominently in Reagan's speech--the U.S. accused the Kremlin of "violating" the spirit of détente, which was soon pronounced...
...will offer the remaining 10% a plural society. If they disavow the use of force and violence, if they forswear the use of guns and agree to disband the N.P.A., there is no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to join the political mainstream. If they resist, they will have declared themselves as public enemies, but they will be easier to subdue...