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...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 has become irrational." Explains Dr. James Curran, head of the AIDS task force at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control...
...convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies in the sky. "I'm just not going to run that way," he said...
...Ambassadors - two wary young traders amid their pellucid clutter of emblematic objects, with an anamorphic blur of a skull floating strangely across the inlaid floor -knows that at once. Together with his older contemporary, Albrecht Dürer, Hol bein represents the point at which German painting shook clear of its Gothic past and its folk ties, entering and interpreting the great Renaissance streams of power and trade, be coming a primary instrument of self-recognition for a new Europe...
FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand was the last leader to arrive at the recent summit conference in Williamsburg. While Mitterrand descended from his horse-drawn carriage, President Reagan waited at the entrance of the governor's colonial house. As the two heads of state shook hands, the cameras captured more than just the encounter of two important leaders. They also showed the meeting of representatives of two diametrically opposed solutions to the world's economic recession. So far, neither solution has worked. And, as the summit conference highlighted, the future holds but slim prospects for either...
...halt and dived out the door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from the mortar rounds landing near by. Bullets ricocheted off the gravel road...