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...premature, yet they are following the Soviets' progress with interest. Only five years ago, two cosmonauts returned from 211 days in space suffering from dizziness, high pulse rates and heart palpitations. They were unable to walk for a week, and a month later they were still undergoing therapy to strengthen atrophied muscles and weakened hearts. Without gravity to work against, muscles -- including the heart muscle -- begin to waste away, and calcium, for reasons that are poorly understood, leaches out of the bones...
...markets also shrugged off a statement issued by the White House. Its major point: "The United States wants to see stability in the dollar." Despite such jawboning, the world's moneymen seem convinced that the dollar cannot strengthen as long as the U.S. trade deficit, estimated at a record $175 billion in 1987, keeps rising. Says Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa: "There may be a feeling that one cannot quite believe that the U.S. trade balance is really going to improve...
Meanwhile, Roh Tae Woo moved confidently into his new role as President- elect. To help strengthen South Korea's relations with Japan, the former general met with Shintaro Abe, secretary-general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and chatted by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Roh promised to seek improved relations with China after he takes office on Feb. 25. Any warming between the two nations could reduce tensions between Seoul and Communist North Korea, a staunch Beijing ally...
...wonder whether such assistance is really wise. Regular international rescue efforts do little to encourage recipients to learn to feed themselves, the skeptics argue, and a tougher approach just might force Ethiopia to mend its ways. "What will aid do?" asked Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough...
...consider some of the ideas advanced by the founders of Tent City now nearly two months ago. Vacant property held by MIT certainly could be used to house homeless people and greater provision could be made for subsidizing low-income units in the new complex. Evictions and arrests can strengthen neither the community, nor MIT's relations within it. In their negotiations with Tent City representatives, MIT has refused to discuss specifics which could provide for a long-term role in assisting the homeless in Cambridge. Without such a commitment, MIT will only create more tension, more resistance, and more...