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...usual TV fare of movies and soccer was abruptly interrupted by the macabre image of six hooded Libyans with nooses around their necks, perched atop stools. As horrified Libyan viewers watched last week, executioners moved down the line of the doomed, kicking over the stools. The state-run TV also showed three soldiers as they were shot to death by firing squads...
When Yugoslavia's Yugo invaded the U.S. in 1985, Americans got their first chance to test the workmanship of a Communist automaker. The reaction so far has been lukewarm, but now another East European country is preparing an assault on the U.S. market. Auto-Dacia, Rumania's state-run car company, plans to introduce its Oltcit, Aro and Dacia models this spring. That could start a price war among comrades. The Oltcit, a three-door hatchback, will go for $3,980 -- $10 less than the cost of a Yugo...
...first line of defense against AIDS in most countries is the state-run health-care system. Many poorly equipped facilities are already badly strained by a flood of AIDS patients. One study noted that the cost of treating ten AIDS patients in the U.S. -- about $450,000 -- is more than the entire budget of one large Zairian hospital. Clinics and hospitals are now routinely discharging AIDS patients after emergency treatment to make room for those who can be effectively treated. Doctors often have to make painful decisions. A case of bacterial pneumonia can be cured with $5 or $6 worth...
Even Italy is providing the public with graphic information. A five-hour special broadcast last week by RAI, the state-run network, included sketches of couples engaged in various intimate acts. Health officials discussed the AIDS-related risks associated with the pictured practices, and fielded calls from anxious viewers. France has yet to start a coordinated effort. A 20-year- old law, prompted by France's stagnant birth rate and amended only in November, had made it illegal to advertise condoms on television or in magazines...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--Sam Nesley Hall, a self-described freedom fighter and brother of a U.S. congressman, will be released within hours because the government decided not to press spy charges, the state-run radio station said Tuesday...