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Panel Discounts Special Hazards In Gene Splicing
such manipulations for a wide variety of purposes, including development of better crops, drugs and vaccines, research toward treatments for incurable hereditary diseases, the search for new ways of coping with chemical pollution and for better understanding the fundamental processes of life. Rearrangement of DNA Genet...
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At Princeton, They Call it an Education
image projected. We Columbia people may have our opinions about how individual Princetonians live up to such claims, and may know from experience that their interest in their eating clubs, squash courts, genteel carousing and social contacts has often exceeded their dedication to mental development. But we haven't ques...
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Chirac Denies Dealings With Iraq on Reactor
LEAD: For the second time this week, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac was forced today to defend himself against press reports involving secret dealings with the combatants in the Iran-Iraq war. For the second time this week, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac was forced today to defend himself against press reports involving ...
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West Germany Top Exporter
LEAD: West Germany has overtaken the United States as the world's top exporting nation, and Japan is close behind, according to figures compiled by the International Monetary Fund. West Germany has overtaken the United States as the world's top exporting nation, and Japan is close behind, according to figures compiled ...
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Travelers Finding Shorter Waits For Immigration Checks at J.F.K.
and the spokesman for European International Carriers, which represents more than 30 international airlines. #45-Minute Trip Called Ideal The ideal journey from landing to exiting the airport - including passage through immigration, baggage collection and customs - should not be more than 45 minutes, he said. Airplane ...
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Caribbean Trade Bill
LEAD: A bill to expand and extend the Caribbean Basin Initiative trade incentives and increase sugar import quotas for nations in the area was introduced today by the chairman of the House Trade subcommittee. ''Our hope is that economic prosperity will ensure political stability in the region for years to come,'' said ...
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U.S. Continues in Family Planning
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Because the world has just marked the birth of its five billionth inhabitant, stories relating to population issues have been in the news. We would like to speak of the United States Agency for International Development's family-planning programs and set the record straight regarding...
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Captain Thrown Off; 2 Face Mutiny Charge
LEAD: Two shrimp boat crewmen accused of beating the captain and first mate and forcing them overboard into shark-infested waters were charged today with mutiny and two counts each of intent to commit murder. Two shrimp boat crewmen accused of beating the captain and first mate and forcing them overboard into shark-inf...
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At Rope's End
my car said she was fed up with me taking her on Helldriver's Boulevard because she was fed up with feeling that she was going to die every time she had Sunday dinner with my family. I was pretty fed up myself with that kind of talk. In going to the family dinner, hadn't I driven her through the nightmare of exurban Ma...
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Hodel Plan May Revive Era of Big Dams in West
LEAD: More than 35 years ago, California politicians began lobbying for a huge dam on the American River 130 miles east of here. Twenty years ago, construction of the dam began. Twelve years ago, the construction was halted. Now the Auburn Dam is in the news again, suggesting that once a giant public works project gets...
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India Is Emerging as No. 1 in Sugar
LEAD: India, in an important measure of economic progress, is poised to become the world's largest sugar producer. India, in an important measure of economic progress, is poised to become the world's largest sugar producer. ''We expect about 8.5 million tons of sugar production this year,'' said a spokesman for the Ind...
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Ulster Doctors Learn to Deal With the Victims of Violence
of a broken leg. Benefits for the Public ''Gunshot wounds were unknown in our society until this happened, this urban warfare, if you will,'' said Dr. Dermot F. Byrnes, a neurosurgeon at Royal Victoria Hospital. The hospital gets most of the victims of bombings and gunfire, including assassination victims often shot in...
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Careers; A Future In College Teaching
LEAD: THERE is a graying of America that can lead to good jobs at the nation's colleges for both young people and middle-aged career changers. In the next decade or so, about 40 percent of American college professors will be retiring, according to Karen Hiiemae, vice president for research and graduate studies at Syrac...
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Brain at Work Revealed Through New Imagery
and motors, and it is the fact on which biomagnetism hinges. Until squids were invented, two decades ago, the fields generated by the body's currents could barely be detected. Now the fields can be measured with enough precision to allow computers to calculate the location of the original signal. Screening Out 'Noise' ...
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French Students Angry at Cut in Minimum Wage
They were long thought to be passive, indifferent to politics and resigned to their lot, but suddenly French students are back in the streets, battling the police, challenging the Government and demanding a voice in the country's affairs. Born in Paris three weeks ago, the protests have spread quickly, with tens of tho...
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Economic Scene; Some relatively obscure business schools shine in a new study.
put their careers and tuition money on the line," Mr. Tracy said. There are no major surprises in the list of schools that deliver the most lucrative jobs to freshly certified masters of business administration. Even after adjusting graduate salaries for differences in the mix of specialties, Stanford, Harvard and Whar...
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Data on Risks Create Debate About Drug to Prevent Breast Cancer
New questions about the treatment and prevention of breast cancer have been raised by researchers who have access to data from a large trial on the use of the drug tamoxifen. The questions specifically concern the use of the drug among healthy women who are at high risk of the disease and who are taking the drug to pre...
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NEWS SUMMARY
International A2-14 NEW PROPOSAL FOR ISRAEL In an effort to get talks with the P.L.O. under way again, the U.S. urged Israel to consider a proposal by the organization for a Palestinian police force in Hebron. A1 ISRAELI SOLDIERS ACCUSED Interviews with many Palestinians who were at the mosque in Hebron where a Jewish ...
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NEWS SUMMARY
doing better than the report said. B6 CANCER STUDY DEBATE Researchers see possible risks to women in a study of whether the drug tamoxifen can prevent breast cancer. But the National Cancer Institute says it should continue. B7 Data from a disputed breast cancer study will be reanalyzed. B7 Women with breast cancer sai...
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France Confronts Vichy Past in War Crimes Trial
Almost half a century after the liberation of France from German occupation, an ailing 78-year-old man, accused of ordering the execution of seven Jews in 1944, on Thursday will become the first French citizen to be tried for crimes against humanity committed during World War II. Many thought this day would never come....
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I.R.A RAID CALLED NO BAR TO TALKS
the 15-year conflict, was in trouble. But the exact significance of the attack was not clear. Either the I.R.A., or a group within the I.R.A., had decided to abandon the initiative or was flexing its muscles to press the British Government into making further concessions so that it could embrace it. British Resist 'Cla...
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Errors Found but No Misconduct in Study on Lead
The scientist who first demonstrated that low levels of lead exposure might cause mental impairment in children has been cleared of misconduct in his research by Federal investigators. But they said his work contained numerous errors and misstatements. The Office of Research Integrity, which reviews cases of possible m...
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U.S. TO ALLOW SALE OF THE TECHNOLOGY FOR SPY SATELLITES
intended to approve requests like those of Lockheed, and went on to argue that the higher-resolution images are essential if any significant commercial market is to be formed. The Commerce Department says that remote-sensing services, as they are known, currently make up a $400 million market worldwide; the market is e...
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Who's Minding the Biotechnology Store?
To the Editor: New research indicates that creation of genetically engineered virus-resistant crops could lead to new plant viruses. Yet, no Federal agency intends to oversee commercialization of these bioengineered crops. There are other troubling gaps in Federal oversight of genetically engineered organisms. The prof...
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France Yields to Student Protests, Abandoning Cut in Youth Wages
would be required to give intense training to those young people on their payrolls. The Government was clearly taken aback by the strength of student opposition to the decree and, with violent clashes between students and the police accompanying many demonstrations, officials began fearing protests comparable to the an...
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Long Neglected, Colombia's Blacks Win Changes
groups are on the coasts and the whites are in the Andes," Dr. Makanaky said. "The whites channel all the state resources to favor their zone." A visit to Choco, whose population is 95 percent black, is to encounter a legacy of decades of neglect by Colombia's European elite. "There is not one kilometer of paved road i...
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Why Junk the Old Car if You Can Recycle It?
To the Editor: The problem of secondary hazardous waste, which is produced after the life of a product, has been ignored by the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress. Secondary hazardous waste is responsible for the clutter of our public parks, the oil found in our drinking water and the thousands of tire dumps ...
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Japanese Vessel Fails to Set Ocean Depth Mark
An unmanned Japanese vessel descended today to the deepest spot in the world's oceans, sending back the first television pictures of the Marianas Trench nearly seven miles below the surface of the Pacific. But just as it was on the verge of landing on the ocean floor, the remote-controlled craft was forced to abort its...
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Personal Health; Jury fails to convict hair dye as a cancer risk.
nine years to a period of 20 or more years. But hair dyes did not receive a totally clean bill of health in the study. As in previous studies, there was a worrisome suggestion that prolonged use of dark dyes, particularly black dye, might increase the risk of developing two potentially fatal cancers: non-Hodgkin's lymp...
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Strangers, Not Their Computers, Build a Network in Time of Grief
who do not have AIDS but carry H.I.V., the virus that causes it. There are network groups for victims of sexual abuse -- and even a support group for recovering abusers. Other communities range from the broad (one has the Internet address "soc.culture.feminism") to the narrowly drawn ("DEAFBLND," coordinated by a compu...
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Strangers, Not Their Computers, Build a Network in Time of Grief
to the next in the cyberspace equivalent of jungle drums. Flood of Get-Well Cards The next day, Mr. Kehoe's housemate and co-worker, Jeffrey Osier, flew to Pennsylvania from California and set up a laptop computer in a motel room across from the hospital, the University of Pennsylvania Neurological Trauma Center in Phi...
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How Estrogen May Work to Protect Against Alzheimer's
worry about bone density and coronary artery disease in the postmenopausal state, but they should also be worrying about what's happening to the neurons." And while exercise and a low-fat, high-calcium diet may go far in counteracting the dangers of an estrogen dropoff to bone and heart, a hormone-free mechanism for ke...
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In Ancient Times, Flowers and Fennel For Family Planning
ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome married shortly after they were physically able to become pregnant and in theory spent 20 to 30 years of their lives vulnerable to pregnancy after pregnancy. Yet, Dr. Riddle said in an interview, "we know that for long periods they did not have enough children for the population to increa...
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Finding a Fancier Path to Spring
THE Tonya and Nancy show was fun for a while. But even without its ignominious fizzle, I have to say that I am good and sick of winter games, Olympic or otherwise. I am tired of my snow blower. Tired of blue hands and a red nose. Tired of stores that are out of salt for the walk. Tired of water that drips and water tha...
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Coming Full Circle From Faust Hall
About 30 years ago, Faust Hall was established as the first group home in Connecticut for people with developmental disabilities. Its purpose was to get people out of institutions -- many of whom didn't belong there in the first place. That was the beginning of the "Changing Course" described Feb. 13. For people with d...
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Climb in Russia's Death Rate Sets Off Population Implosion
With a society so nervous about the future that it has all but stopped having children, and a death rate rising faster than that of any other country, Russia faces an unusual population crisis that even optimists say will take a generation to reverse. Life expectancy of adult men has plummeted to 60 years, Russian and ...
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Developing Ourselves to Death
western Europe in the 17th century to conquer the world over the next three centuries." Those are the same three centuries in which people have most extensively altered the global environment. And for the last 50 years, the World Bank has been the primary handmaiden of modernization in what used to be called the third ...
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Technology; Of Willful Wipers And Talking Cars
THERE was much that was worthy at the annual automobile engineering conference here last week: self-sealing fuel line connectors, for example, and low pressure molding compounds. But this is not a story about those things. This is a story about the really cool stuff: The windshield wipers that wipe of their own free wi...
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Voices in Favor Of the D.M.R. Plan
As parents of children who are mentally retarded, we take umbrage at the unbalanced and biased article, "How the Care of Retarded People Is Changing Course." The article is skewed because it only quoted a vocal minority of parents who are fearful of the change that the Department of Mental Retardation's five-year plan ...
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Details
Have you ever doubted that tha whole may be greater that the sum of its parts? Then take a look at these 15 parts, all details of well known world monuments, and see how mant wholes you can identify. No prizes, and only one hint: One of them is in London. Answers appear on Page 42. ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ ON PAGE 92 1. Cou...
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Traveling With A Computer's Help
Frequent fliers with personal computers can make their own travel arrangements with the O.A.G. Flightdisk Starter Kit and a year's subscription to a monthly series of disks containing North American flight information. Users enter the itinerary -- departure and destination cities and dates -- into a form on the screen ...
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Corrections
A picture on Feb. 20 with an article about Cuba's sugar business carried an incorrect caption. The photograph showed a farm worker in a sugar cane field, not a mechanical harvester.
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Ideas & Trends; For Sale. Cheap. Your Own Piece Of the Airwaves.
regional licenses for "personal communication services" -- a term that covers a broad family of new portable telephones, computers and hand-held messaging devices. The auctions will probably begin sometime next year, and the Clinton Administration has predicted they will yield $10 billion in revenue. But that is assumi...
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An Appraisal; Columbus Circle's Changing Face: More Than Geometry
Modern Art, threw many architects into an uproar. With its vaguely Venetian loggia and ground-floor colonnade, this cultural campanile violated the modernist taboo against historically derived decoration. Alas, the taboo was still in place five years later, when Thomas E. Stanley designed the Gulf and Western tower. Ur...
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New & Noteworthy Paperbacks
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Volume One: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 By Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, $15.95. This biography examines the ethical philosophy as well as the intellectual brilliance of one of the world's greatest economists, giving full attention to his homosexuality and the guilt he felt over his British Government ro...
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Flight Service Back to Normal at London Airports
Flight operations returned to normal today at London's two main airports, which were paralyzed briefly on Sunday night after the Irish Republican Army fired dud mortar shells at Heathrow and threatened the airport at Gatwick. The attacks led the British and Irish Governments today to rebuff a new appeal by the I.R.A. t...
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Don't Sell Our Spy Technology
The Clinton Administration's announcement Thursday that it will allow American companies to market spy satellite technology abroad points to a dangerous weak point in a generally sensible new export control policy. In seeking to justify the sales, a Commerce Department official offered this glib and expansive explanati...
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Recycling Has Shown Remarkable Success in Four Short Years
(letter, March 2) by Mark D. Shantzis, chairman of Hi-Rise Recycling Systems. Recycling is one of several solid waste management solutions. And considering that mainstream recycling has been operating for only about four years, the results are remarkable. Steel cans -- whether empty food, beverage, aerosol or paint can...
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Job Security That Is Based On Skills, Not the Economy
A year ago, Terri Welk, a 37-year-old airline worker with a new bachelor's degree in the emerging field of computer-based information systems, sent out a single resume. After an interview two weeks later, she landed a job paying close to $40,000 a year. Behind these prosaic facts is an adventure story of one woman's es...
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A Rage Brewing
THIS WEEK
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THE SEED CONSPIRACY
out of the marketplace. According to the Seed Savers Exchange, an organization established in 1975 to encourage backyard gardeners to preserve certain open-pollinated varieties, almost half of all the nonhybrid vegetable varieties on the market just 10 years ago have been dropped from mail-order catalogues. This often ...
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Opening a Window Despite a Disability
Levitz and Mr. Kingsley were able to write such a moving memoir is in many ways a testament to their parents, who strived from the outset to make their lives as normal as possible. When they were born, Down syndrome was believed to be the equivalent of life imprisonment, rendering those who had it virtually uneducable....
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A Hospital That Helps Children Fight 'Tremendous Obstacles'
it became the Children's Specialized Hospital. It is the largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital in New Jersey. Besides the 85-bed hospitalin Mountainside, it has an outpatient center in Fanwood and a 30-bed branch in Toms River. Patients range from children just months old to adolescents. No one is turned away for i...
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Air Passengers Warned On Dangerous Areas
The International Airline Passengers Association has issued a list of areas of the world that it considers the most dangerous for air travel. They are China, South Korea and India; all countries in Central Africa; all republics of the former Soviet Union; South America, specifically flights through the Andes, and trips...
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The Executive Life; Throwing Stresses To the Oregon Wind
impatient students, is that "they understand what a learning curve is, and can accept it." Karl A. A. Reuther, 61, the chairman of Reuther Mold and Manufacturing, a maker of industrial molds in Akron, Ohio, has discovered many parallels between windsurfing and business. "It's the hardest sport there is, and takes perse...
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Method and Madness; DO MOLES MATTER
Space Telescope, except that they point not up to distant galaxies but down to dirty laundry, these delicate instruments provide streams of good-as-eyewitness information. But satellites have their own limitations. Their costs, mercifully hidden in black budgets, are probably huge. They have doubtless suffered their sh...
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WEST BANK MASSACRE: Diplomacy; Clinton Praises Rabin for His Tough Stance on Militant Settlers
the attack. The new Middle East strategy comes as the United States on Saturday began another round of high-profile, high-risk, open-ended negotiations between the Muslim-dominated Government of Bosnia and the Croatian faction in an effort to reach a comprehensive peace agreement to end the 22-month war. 'Moment of New...
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Opportunistic Species Gain In Battle for the Backyard
easier still, and their top priority is protecting habitats from human encroachment. But many people, Mr. Malmsbury said, insist that the landscape is now their turf and that mountain lions and bears do not belong. One solution to troublesome bears has been to move them to other areas, but people in the new area someti...
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Russians' Newest Space Adventure: Cyberspace
2,400 bauds or less, for the fruits of Russian military technology never trickled down to the hacker. Services Are Cheap But on the positive side, commercial services are cheap, costing most users a few dollars a month. As in the United States, universities and institutes largely connect to the Internet free. And some ...
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Lines Drawn in a War Over a Milk Hormone
A month after a genetically engineered dairy hormone went on sale to farmers, leaflets, labels and advertisements have proliferated in food markets here in a war of words over the hormone's usefulness and safety. On one side are the drug's maker and dairy industry giants; on the other, a coalition of dairy processors a...
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Seed by Seed, Row by Row: Hope for Ancient Plants
10,000 years -- ever since a human first put one in the ground and realized that more would be needed later. But now, as the destruction of habitats continues, as farmers keep on growing thousands of acres of a single crop that could be wiped out by a pest or virus, as seed companies are bought up by multinational corp...
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I.R.A. Plans 72-Hour Cease-Fire in Ulster
best advantage of the British and Irish people." It added, "making peace is a difficult business for all involved but the difficulties must be overcome." Adams Favors Move Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, called the I.R.A. statement an "important initiative." John Hume, the head of the mainstream Roman Catholic...
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Sharp Increase Along the Borders of Poverty
workers with few skills. But they speculate that the trend may be contributing to any number of social ills, like the record rates of welfare dependency, out-of-wedlock birth, child poverty and general social disaffection. The wage erosion clearly complicates one of the Clinton Administration's main domestic goals, to ...
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10 Are Killed In French Sub On Exercises
Ten sailors died today in an accident aboard a French nuclear-propelled submarine that was taking part in naval exercises in the Mediterranean off Toulon, the Defense Ministry announced. A ministry spokesman said that the Emeraude, a 2,400-ton Rubis-class attack submarine, did not carry nuclear missiles and that its 48...
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G.M. Signs Electric Car Battery Deal
The General Motors Corporation said yesterday that it had signed a partnership agreement with the Ovonic Battery Company to advance the commercialization of a relatively new kind of battery for electric vehicles. The venture with Ovonic, a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, will explore the application of nickel ...
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Low Pay and Closed Doors Confront Young Job Seekers
Andrew Flenoy has ironed his white shirt until there are sharp creases down the sleeves. His hands are folded in his lap, his back is ramrod straight, and his feet jiggle nervously as he begins his fifth job interview in as many weeks -- this one at Sprint, the long-distance telephone company that is Kansas City's larg...
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Pollution Of Water Tied to Oil In Ecuador
AFTER three decades of oil exploration and production in Ecuador's Amazon region, sections of the rain forest are now so contaminated that Indians and colonists living there are exposed to high risks of cancer, a new water sample study indicates. "Drinking water, bathing and fishing water and produced water samples con...
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World Economies
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All We Need Are More Manufacturing Jobs; The Overqualified Trap
To the Editor: Two of the job seekers in "Low Pay and Closed Doors Greet Young in Job Market" conclude that to find more challenging jobs "they will have to go to graduate school" (front page, March 10). Unless they choose a field of study in high demand, graduate school is not a simple solution. Indeed, a graduate deg...
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Petrolina Journal; Brazil Waters a Desert. The Desert Is Still Smiling.
Cesar Coutinho, president of Curaca Agricola, which annually exports millions of crates of mangoes to the United States and Europe. "So, we produce mangoes for the American market when the Mexicans can't -- from September through January." American producers visited here recently to study the possibility of exporting g...
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Rich Nations Plan $2 Billion for Environment
The United States and other aid-giving countries pledged today to provide $2 billion over the next three years to help poor countries keep the environmental promises they made in Rio de Janeiro two years ago, when they undertook to fight global warming and preserve animal and plant life. The money will replenish a new ...
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House Enters Alien Terrain: Debating
Members of the House of Representatives have made their political points in countless ways through history -- beating opponents with fire tongs, sleeping through the 1812 resolution declaring war on Britain and, in one early instance, undressing on the House floor -- but in recent decades, stirring political debate has...
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A Service To Help the Learning Disabled
People with questions about learning disabilities and parents searching for after-school tutors for their learning-disabled children now have a place to start. The Learning Disabilities Association of New York City, a nonprofit organization, operates a telephone referral and information service to point people in the r...
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Property Tax Changes Are Urged To Help Preserve Northeast Forest
A regional commission examining ways to preserve the 26-million-acre forest of northern New York and New England called yesterday for changes in the way the property is taxed to help individual owners keep control of their land. But despite the urging of some conservationists, it did not recommend specific changes in f...
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As Social Ills Stir, French Premier's Ratings Sag
When Edouard Balladur was named Prime Minister last year, the French seemed ready for his reassuring, grandfatherly style, and in no time, they turned the 64-year-old Gaullist into the front-runner to succeed President Francois Mitterrand in next year's elections. Cautious by nature, though, Mr. Balladur said he was pu...
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They've Got Your Name. You've Got Their Junk.
AMY RINK enjoys shopping by mail, but lately she is not willing to pay the price. It is not the expense of the merchandise that irks her, but the inevitable tradeoff: a single order can prompt a steady stream of unwanted mail, a costly nuisance since Ms. Rink must pay by the container to dispose of trash from her home ...
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THE FIRST AMENDMENT, UNDER FIRE FROM THE LEFT
are harshest on what you would call pornography are also harshest on women. In China promulgation of pornography leads to capital punishment. In Iran it leads to the harshest and most outrageous physical torture. These are not good countries for women to live in. If you look at countries like Sweden and Japan and Holla...
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MANHATTAN UPDATE
is the Union Square station," said Nicholas Fish, chairman of Community Board 5, which had endorsed the original designs. "Now the architects must complete the design without the pavilion by October," Mr. Lebow said, adding that work would begin on the project by the beginning of next year. * STUYVESANT TOWN: The probl...
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Raze the Roof, Fix a Pothole
than a quarter-million tons of discarded roofing material out of New Jersey landfills, cut the demand for oil used to make asphalt, and provided, according to the company and some of its customers, a superior pothole patch, though it is more expensive than the usual mix. "It works fantastic," said Henry A. Monker, who ...
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After 460 Years, The Anglicans Ordain Women
Church of England has attempted to accommodate die-hard "traditionalists" by establishing provisions for a diocese or a parish where female priests would not be allowed to minister. In the case of a diocese, it may be done by declaration of the bishop and in the case of a parish by a vote of the parochial church counci...
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African Austerity
A comprehensive study of the economies of 29 African countries by the World Bank showed that those that carried out tough austerity measures during the 1980's improved their growth while those that did not became further mired in recession. Article, page 18.
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AN ORBITING SYSTEM IS PLANNED TO LINK MOST OF THE GLOBE
"geostationary" communication satellites that orbit in sync with the earth's rotation from positions 22,300 miles above the equator so that they are over one spot at all times. The proposed system bears some resemblance to the Iridium project. But that system is to provide the satellite equivalent of a cellular telepho...
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The Electronic Word Went Out
troubling amendment would have required all schoolteachers to be certified to teach the subjects they were assigned. What was ultimately responsible for the explosiveness of the outcry was an awareness that spread like an infectious disease over the computer networks of America. An exaggerated claim that the proposed l...
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On-Line Romance; Office Workers Feel Cupid's Byte
electronic dalliance can take innumerable forms. Last year at a Midwestern manufacturing company, for example, in a case recounted by Dr. Mainiero, a woman began receiving anonymous messages on her computer. Eventually she confronted her suspect, an engineer, who immediately confessed. They were still dating at last re...
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Empty! UConn Shoots Blanks in Overtime and Goes Home
its final 12 possessions, allowing the Eagles to overcome a 5-point deficit. The Eagles have reached the final eight two previous times in school history, losing both times, in 1967 and 1982. After very nearly becoming remembered for what they did not do, the B.C. seniors have earned a special opportunity. "We've been ...
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Passions Ignited, French March for Wages Again
The worst clashes occurred near the Place de la Nation, where the march ended. In Lyons, some 30,000 protesters gathered for a demonstration. Students also turned out in force in Marseilles, Toulouse, Grenoble, Lille, Valence and Nice. Overnight in Nantes, some 400 youths built barricades and threw gasoline bombs at th...
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I.R.A. Forces 2-Hour Closing of London Airports
The Irish Republican Army closed down London's two main airports for two hours tonight, delaying thousands of travelers and disrupting international air traffic through much of Europe and beyond. In the morning, Heathrow airport was hit by another mortar attack, the third in five days, but the four shells that struck d...
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Abroad at Home; A Bleak Vision
microcosm of what is occurring, albeit in a more tempered and gradual manner," Mr. Kaplan writes, "throughout West Africa and much of the underdeveloped world: the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, the unchecked spread of disease and the growing pervasiveness of war." When ...
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Panels in Congress to Act on Improving Air Quality on Aircraft
Two chairmen of Congressional panels say they will take action to improve the quality of air in airline cabins. One of them, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, who is chairman of the Agriculture Committee, said this week that he had had the "very unpleasant experience" of being sprayed with an insecticide b...
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Abortion Is Divisive Issue at Population Talks
and rare." Dr. Sadik defended the United States. "I think the tirade against the U.S. is being used to whip up emotion against the program of action," she said about the United Nations plan. Delegates were divided over the issue of offering adolescents contraceptives and counseling on sexuality. Several countries insis...
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Albany Plans House Calls To Monitor the Mentally Ill
commitment to the concept of assertive community treatment, as the program is called, as Michigan, where 95 teams now treat 3,990 people. Dr. Ted F. Mauger, a psychiatrist in a treatment team in Grand Rapids, Mich., sees patients either in their homes or in his office and, twice a year, at a picnic or party to get a fe...
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Feeding a Booming Population Without Destroying the Planet
yields and coping with diminishing resources. These arguments have now been joined by a third view which holds that products of human ingenuity like the science-based Green Revolution, in which the development of high-yield grains enabled food production to keep pace with the population explosion of the last quarter-ce...
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Feeding a Booming Population Without Destroying the Planet
problems, and its supply, he says, can be blocked by a number of factors arising from a country's political and social institutions. These include, for instance, a lack of trained scientists and technologists, a shortage of research funds, institutional resistance to innovation and social conflict arising from scarcity...
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China Says It Holds Dissident to Check 'New Crimes'
to reenter the capital. Though unstated in today's official dispatch, the alleged criminal activity almost certainly relates to Mr. Wei's outspoken criticism of the Chinese leadership and his campaign for democracy and human rights, which has been waged since last fall through essays and interviews with foreign journal...
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CHRONICLE
This is surely a banner year for JUDITH RODIN, the provost of Yale University. On July 1, she will become president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head an Ivy League school. On April 30, she will marry PAUL VERKUIL, the president of the American Automobile Association. Her plans were divulged on ...
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A Disabilities Program That 'Got Out of Hand'
a district's wealth, local politics and the fashionability of learning disabilities at the moment. In Montgomery County, Maryland's richest school district, about half the children in special education are classified with learning disabilities; in Baltimore, the state's poorest district, less than 20 percent are. Rober...
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Astronauts Prepare for Shuttle Launching Today
A space shuttle mission to test a radar mapping system is scheduled for lift-off on Friday morning, but the weather could interfere . Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today that the shuttle Endeavour and its six-member crew were ready to begin the planned nine-day flight at 8:06 A.M. ...