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During the prolonged question-and-answer period after the Secretary's afternoon speech at the Yenching Library, a self-described Tamilese man gave Perez de Cuellar a sealed document entreating him, the man said, to "stop the killing" of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government...
...voyage of the Universestates in Seattle, once in the fall and once in the spring. From there, the ship visits Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Spain. This year, however, it avoided India because of the political troubles there, said Helen M. Delahanty, mother of Jean L. Delahanty '85, who is now on the boat...
...wield as effectively as a sharp rapier. I watched him charm a dinner table in June this year, a mixed group that included the coach of football's Dallas Cowboys and a Hollywood magnate as well as the guest of honor, Madame Jayewardene, wife of the President of Sri Lanka. She was very shy and ill at ease, but President Reagan, though tired from a day's travel, quickly sensed her anxiety and took it upon himself to entertain her. He talked of the handicapped whom he had just been visiting; she discussed Sri Lanka's problems...
...heady days of the 1960s, international health authorities thought they had it licked. The enervating fevers, the trembling chills, the splitting headaches and the appalling child-mortality rates were on their way out. Malaria, exulted the World Health Organization in Geneva, was defeated in Europe, banished from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and on the run in India and Pakistan, thanks to the effectiveness of drugs and insecticides. Even in Africa, it stood to go the way of smallpox. They could not have been more wrong. Today more than half the world's people live under the threat of malaria...
...classic illustration of Darwinian evolution: a handful of mosquitoes that were DDT-resistant and a tiny number of parasites that were drug-resistant had survived, multiplied and defeated the best efforts of modern science. Malaria returned with a vengeance. In just four years, the incidence in Sri Lanka rose from 18 cases to more than a million. The entire eradication program backfired, says Dr. Kenneth Warren, director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. "It's the worst mess in medicine...