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...signal may have helped catalyze Marcos' latest surprise venture, it was a four-day visit to Manila last month by Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Laxalt held two meetings with the Philippine leader. At one of them, the U.S. legislator passed along a three-page letter from President Reagan outlining his personal worries about the local situation. As a Laxalt aide recalled last week, Marcos was the first to mention presidential elections, only to reject the idea. By the second meeting, according to the aide, Marcos had changed his mind, at least in principle, and had become "enthusiastic" about...
Jaruzelski's resignation was an attempt to signal that Poland's political crisis, which began more than a year before he declared martial law in December 1981, is ending. He can now devote himself to repairing the damage done by the defection of an estimated 1 million Poles from party rolls in the past five years. By promoting Messner, 56, an economist, to succeed him as Premier, he also underscored his intention to rebuild Poland's shattered economy while distancing himself from difficulties ahead. Noted one Western diplomat based in Poland: "He can now blame someone else when things...
...Medicine. The study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various parts of the brain have become narrowed and a stroke may be imminent...
...when, in all likelihood, the full wonder of the moment will have most powerfully gripped them. Two humans out of 5 billion somehow chosen to carry the hopes of all, searching each other's eyes, listening to the timbre of each other's voice, looking for some familiar signal that could lead to a better way to live together on this planet...
...could be profitable if it encourages the Pacific countries to re-examine their economic strategies. Even the threat of Western import barriers could be helpful if it forces countries to find different trading partners and new ways to grow. Concluded Hong Kong's Chen: "Protectionism can be an early signal to adjust. And only countries that learn to adjust can prosper." --By Charles P. Alexander Forecasts by TIME's Pacific Board of Economists...