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Nonetheless, the Helsinki human rights declarations have produced benefits. A temporary relaxation of barriers to Jewish emigration allowed tens of thousands of separated families to be reunited. Worldwide concern over the fate of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov, now 64, prompted the image-conscious Soviets last week to release a ten-minute color videotape showing the physicist, apparently in good health, and his wife Yelena Bonner. Said a French observer: "If you don't think the accords matter to the Russians, then just watch television." A senior Western diplomat in Moscow concurred: "These agreements give us the basis...
...least ten people were killed. Several British residents were beaten. An Indian businessman described how soldiers broke into his home, forced his family to lie on the living-room floor and then ransacked the house, stealing radios, money and a video recorder. They took "everything they could carry," he said. Marauders burned scores of buildings and shot up electrical facilities, causing blackouts in parts of the capital...
...bigger is often better. "Reagan's people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the opportunity to put through deals now that they couldn't have ten years ago." A more zealous Justice Department blocked the merger of two Los Angeles grocery chains during the 1960s on the grounds that the combined firms would claim 5% of the area's food-store business. Today corporate acquisitions that result in market shares of up to 20% routinely...
...early this year, most Americans had become aware of AIDS, conscious of a trickle of news about a disease that was threatening homosexuals and drug addicts. AIDS, the experts said, was spreading rapidly. The number of cases was increasing geometrically, doubling every ten months, and the threat to heterosexuals appeared to be growing. But it was the shocking news two weeks ago of Actor Rock Hudson's illness that finally catapulted AIDS out of the closet, transforming it overnight from someone else's problem, a "gay plague," to a cause of international alarm. AIDS was suddenly a front-page disease...
Curran estimates that for each of the 12,000 cases of AIDS reported so far in the U.S., there are at least five to ten cases of ARC. Sample studies based on blood tests suggest that an additional 500,000 to 1 million Americans are symptomless carriers of the virus. What will happen to this group is the object of much speculation and study. "That's the million-dollar question," says Dr. Michael Lange of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. The guess is that 5% to 10% of people who do not have symptoms...