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...books in local libraries, they found no reference to a viral cause of non- Hodgkin's lymphoma. Instead, they came upon another cancer of immune-system cells, Burkitt's lymphoma, which afflicts black African children and is strongly associated with infection by the Epstein-Barr virus. Even though the stricken family is white, says the Georgia victim, "it was the only viral- caused cancer that we could find. Because of that and because of where our visitor came from, we started making the connection...
WASHINGTON--A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine remained "dead in the water" in the Atlantic yesterday, but no smoke was seen spewing from the stricken ship, indicating a fire on board had been extinguished, Pentagon officials said...
Domestic pressures motivated the dumping. American farmers, already driven by federal farm subsidies to overproduce, were stricken in large areas with perfect weather for growing, thus suffering a record-breaking harvest. The subsequent abundance caused a slump in the already sliding commodities market...
...harvest begins, the twin plagues of drought and overabundance have dealt yet another blow to America's stricken farmers. In the following pages, TIME's Hugh Sidey looks at the ravaged Southeast and the surfeit in his native Midwest; a moving letter from a North Carolina farmwife reveals the personal anguish of a lifetime of work that ends in bankruptcy; and a worldwide assessment of the farm dilemma shows why it is proving so intractable...
...American harvest is the gargantuan creation of strong men and women, hard work, ingenuity. But this year's harvest is bittersweet. In the drought- stricken Southeast, there is not enough: fields are burned, stunted. Almost everywhere else, too much: glut, a beautiful curse costing $25.5 billion for price supports and subsidies. Wherever one looks, American agriculture, the very rock on which the nation stands, is in some kind of trouble...