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...member Pearce Commission ended its eight-week fact-finding mission in Rhodesia in March. The commission's task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
Japan's royal family descended from its divine status a generation ago, and now it cultivates a more mundane image. So there was no effort to disguise the triumphant glee with which seven-year-old Prince Aya, second son of Crown Prince Akihito, gripped his newest honor: a diploma from Tokyo's Gakushuin kindergarten...
...Seven-year-old child...
Self-Doubt. McAllister, of the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, and Gardner, of the U.S.C. School of Medicine, led the California team participating in the experiments. The National Cancer Institute also took part. The West Coast phase started in 1968 with the study of tissue from a seven-year-old girl suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare, generally fatal cancer that attacks the body's voluntary muscles. Though the child died, the doctors did manage to take a sample of her tissue and keep it growing in culture. Suspecting that these cancer cells contained viruses, the researchers tried to coax...
...Tokyo...Seven-year-old Seiichi Yasuda of the heavily industrialized city of Yokkaichi, Japan, recently collapsed and suffocated despite doctors' attempts to revive him. The cause of death, according to city authorities: air pollution. Young Seiichi, an asthma sufferer since the age of 3, became Yokkaichi's 41st officially designated pollution fatality...