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...strange way -- sometimes flawed but often legitimate -- cameras and notebooks tend to converge on those crises that really do deserve greater attention. Yugoslavia figures as a kind of test case of what might happen throughout decommunized, unstable Central and Eastern Europe. Unrestrained ethnic rivalries in these lands threaten to turn the European Community on its ear, upsetting a prosperous balance gained only in the past couple of generations...
Since the bacteria that cause TB spread through the air, they threaten not only AIDS patients but healthy people as well. Those with an intact immune system can usually fight off the infection, but this does not hold true for people who harbor HIV. Until the resurgence of TB, medical personnel who were HIV-positive but still healthy could work on AIDS floors without jeopardizing their own or anyone else's well-being. Now they will face a greater risk of encountering and developing TB. More AIDS patients are thus likely to be treated under quarantine conditions to avoid spreading...
...Corriere della Sera: "We have chosen leaders who are very capable of shedding tears but perfectly incapable of assuming grave duties." The month-old government of Prime Minister Giuliano Amato found its attention painfully distracted from the job of repairing the budget deficit, public debt and unemployment that threaten its status in the European Community...
...MCLU, too, believes that the law is "an issue of liberties." Wunsch has contacted city officials "a number of times" to recommend that police arrests be limited to those homeless people who threaten or harass passers-by, she said. The city manager's office told Wunsch that a memo would be sent to the police department, but "people go on being arrested," said Wunsch...
...responded on the eve of the Fourth of July with a resounding "Non!" The panel voted to recommend to President Bush this week a rejection of Thomson-CSF's $300 million offer, based on widespread concern that the sale would compromise LTV's considerable top-secret high technology and threaten national security interests. The action was taken on the same day that votes in both the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate expressed disapproval of the sale. Anticipating rejection, Thomson-CSF officials have been scrambling for some time to put together a new offer -- with American partners, including Raytheon, Northrop...