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...influential on environmental and technology issues. But he was also put in charge of the National Performance Review, often called "reinventing government," or "ReGo" for short. Any project with that many names was bound to be viewed initially as the domestic equivalent of being sent to a funeral in Thailand, but it has emerged as a strong leg in Clinton's economic tripod, along with health-care reform and the North American Free Trade Agreement. ReGo gained importance when Clinton cited its money-saving potential to members of Congress who were complaining about insufficient spending cuts in the budget package...
...Secret Thailand-Khmer Rouge Connection...
...offensive by the Cambodian army, were evacuated by Thai army trucks and driven through Thai territory to a Khmer Rouge base. UNTAC officials wanted to announce their discovery but were overruled by officials at the U.N. headquarters in New York City who didn't want an open dispute with Thailand...
Encouraged by laboratory results suggesting that the drug could suppress the AIDS virus (HIV) in cells grown outside the body, a team of scientists led by immunologist Gilla Kaplan gave thalidomide to a dozen patients in New York City and Thailand. After four to six weeks of therapy, some of them had gained between 10 and 30 lbs. and their fevers had disappeared...
...activist with the U.S.-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Many experts, however, say a hard-line approach is impractical. "Prostitutes should be paid better, protected from abuse and perhaps taken into the social-security system," says Marie-France Botte, who runs rescue centers for child prostitutes in Thailand for Doctors Without Borders, the French doctors' group. "You won't get anywhere by moralizing...