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The Takeover of American Industry
LEAD: Last summer, just after the Bridgestone Corporation of Japan bought the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, it said it would invest $1.5 billion in its new American property, raising spending for everything from research to plant modernization. To executives in Firestone's Chicago headquarters, who had watched the...
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U.S. Secretly Helped France Develop Nuclear Weapons, an Expert Writes
of French military independence from the United States and the public illusion that the French nuclear striking force was entirely home grown, Mr. Ullman said. A Step-Saving Road To Nuclear Weapons The guidance probably saved France great expenditures and effort by steering it away from research paths that the more mat...
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As The Arts Contribute More to the Economy, They Must Be Protected
and highly skilled people necessary to a growing services sector and technology-based industries are attracted and retained by distinctive amenities like the arts. These services and a state's human capital are, in turn, key to the state's capacity to invent or evolve new export bases. In other words, the short-term be...
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Foreign Owners Are Shaking Up the Competition
the industry is girding for a battle of the titans following other acquisitions - General Tire was bought four years ago by the West German Continental A.G. and Armstrong Tire was bought last year by Italy's Pirelli S.p.A. Worldwide, the industry has evolved into a handful of powerful players - Goodyear, Michelin, Brid...
254029_0
Thai Policy Promotes Piracy Against Refugees
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your May 7 report of a savage pirate attack against Vietnamese refugees off the Malaysian coast shows clearly the seriousness of the refugee crisis in Southeast Asia and the awful consequences of the Southeast Asian first-asylum countries' restrictive policy toward asylum seekers, es...
253936_0
THE HISTORIAN KEPT HIS COOL
LEAD: ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE A Life. By William H. McNeill. Illustrated. 346 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $24.95. ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE A Life. By William H. McNeill. Illustrated. 346 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $24.95. In the 1960's most educated Americans had heard of Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975); many h...
253970_1
Graduations Will Carry On Family's Legacy
the benefit of not having to drive to colleges several times a year. One child attended a university one and a half hours from home, and another attended college three hours from home. Our third child chose a university a mere 10 minutes from our door, saving wear and tear on us and our automobiles. Of course, the most...
254196_1
France's New Attack Of National Insecurity
to Africa. It had immense cultural influence. ''I reject categorically the argument of decline,'' he said. The full-dress news conference launched a particularly intense phase of French diplomacy. Mr. Mitterrand zoomed off to a meeting with President Bush at Kennebunkport, Maine; last week he was in Senegal for a summi...
252420_0
Doomed Project Won't Die
LEAD: A high-rise building wracked by two demolition blasts leaned precariously but did not fall today, prompting officials to evacuate nearby residents while wrecking crews moved in with a crane. A high-rise building wracked by two demolition blasts leaned precariously but did not fall today, prompting officials to ev...
252387_0
Bicycle Oldies Are Making Good
LEAD: NOSTALGIA for the wide-tire bicycles of the 1950's has returned cycling to a bygone era. Updated versions of the old gear - bikes with upright handlebars and balloon tires - now come equipped with multiple gears, index shifting and improved braking systems. The cycles are known by a variety of names: mountain bik...
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Researchers Say Age at Menopause Appears to Be a Gauge of Longevity
LEAD: The age at which women reach menopause has been linked to their risk of early death in a study of more than 5,000 women. The age at which women reach menopause has been linked to their risk of early death in a study of more than 5,000 women. The study found that women who underwent natural menopause relatively ea...
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5 Youths Held in Sex Assault On Mentally Impaired Girl, 17
suffer any physical injuries, told her teachers about the incident three days later, on March 4. While technically a student at Glen Ridge High School, where she was co-captain of the junior-varsity softball team this spring, she attends special-education classes at West Orange High School nearby. At one point Mr. Tate...
253256_0
New Rallying Cry: Parents Unite
LEAD: A PARENTS' movement is astir in the United States. Unlike other recent social movements, this one is not a battle for rights or equality, but for relief. A PARENTS' movement is astir in the United States. Unlike other recent social movements, this one is not a battle for rights or equality, but for relief. Increa...
250815_0
Porto Velho Journal; In the Gold Rush, Nature Is Viciously Trampled
LEAD: When Thalis de Castro headed for the Amazon in 1976, he was in search of God. He joined a sect that stimulated its prayers and visions with the juices of a jungle plant, and for four years, he said, nothing drove him to hunt for wealth. When Thalis de Castro headed for the Amazon in 1976, he was in search of God....
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Hills Says Trade Pressure Pays Off
last month for unfair trading practices. Her next list is due in two weeks, and the law requires Mrs. Hills to pick out the most egregious offenders, determining at the same time where there is ''the most significant potential to increase United States exports.'' South Korea recently announced a three-year plan to libe...
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Hungary Moves to Abandon Dam Project on the Danube
LEAD: A Government panel voted today to abandon a dam project on the Danube, calling it ''a symbol of Hungary's mismanaged economic development,'' the official press agency reported. A Government panel voted today to abandon a dam project on the Danube, calling it ''a symbol of Hungary's mismanaged economic development...
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About New York; A 'Mother' Waits With Open Arms At Ports of Call
and all - that became East River landmarks. It was different, too, from the macho jungle Marlon Brando prowled in ''On the Waterfront.'' Fierce competition has changed the maritime industry. To raise productivity and slash costs, ships have become larger and more automated, carrying smaller crews and spending 12 hours ...
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Hungary Quits Danube Project, Angering Prague
LEAD: Twelve years ago, when work started on a huge power dam project near the winding Danube on the border of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, leaders in both countries lauded the project as a symbol of Communist harmony. Twelve years ago, when work started on a huge power dam project near the winding Danube on the border ...
252053_1
Yellow-Fever Epidemic Raising Concern in Bolivia
reached its peak several weeks ago. But officials say the danger remains high. Most Victims Are Indians ''This is a serious outbreak, and it is of serious concern,'' said an American official who has been monitoring the epidemic. The epidemic highlights the current economic crisis in South America's poorest country. Te...
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Stamping Out the Fire Of Religious Violence Is as Hopeless as Ever
LEAD: LATE last month, three members of an outlawed Protestant terrorist group from Northern Ireland were arrested in Paris for trying to sell a South African diplomat a British-made antiaircraft missile, presumably in exchange for supplies of weapons and ammunition. LATE last month, three members of an outlawed Protes...
252045_1
In Run for Ph.D., Costs and Hurdles Get Higher
result not of slothful habits by graduate students, but of the ever-increasing demands these students are forced to meet: an increase in the achievements requisite for employment and an increase in the financial and professional burdens that we, as students, are expected to bear. Given ample funds, it might be possible...
251976_0
'People Are So Fed Up, So Angry'
LEAD: VIOLENT crimes are increasing in Connecticut and throughout the country, according to state and national statistics. Many of those crimes never make the news, but others, like the recent attack on the jogger in Central Park, not only make headlines, but cause many people to react as well. VIOLENT crimes are incre...
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TRAVEL ADVISORY
Reservations: 800-772-4642. Florence Repair Is Continuing Visitors to Florence should be aware that machinery, dust and rubble continue to fill the Piazza della Signoria, site of a copy of Michelangelo's ''David,'' as a result of repaving work. The work is expected to continue into next year. The repairs have been in p...
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Companies Open Jobs For Summer
the company's home office in Hartford, while the rest will be scattered around the country. Union Carbide Corporation will also hire a large number of interns this year, according to a spokesman, Harvey I. Cobert. In addition to 40 minority interns, the Danbury-based company will place 110 other college students at its...
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Congress Shows Signs of Spending To Fight Infant Deaths
LEAD: WITH progress in reducing the infant mortality rate in the United States seemingly stalled, Congress is considering a host of new measures intended to address what has become a notorious symbol of national failure. WITH progress in reducing the infant mortality rate in the United States seemingly stalled, Congres...
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A Successful Alliance Gropes for a Purpose
is appointed the first Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. 1954-55: West German rearmament. After a 1952 conference in Lisbon decides that a conventional defense of Europe would require 50 divisions - a force level never achieved by NATO - an unsuccessful effort is made to establish an integrated European army. When th...
251949_2
NOBODY'S PUPPET
relations were altered by Mikhail S. Gorbachev's recent visit to Havana. But in trying to cover so many subissues in 282 pages of text, he treats several themes superficially. Perhaps the weakest chapters are those dealing with Cuba's support for revolutionary movements and its relationship with the rest of Latin Ameri...
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TOWARD WIDER HORIZONS
Danto's own discussions to a great extent move within the traditional framework constructed by those arguments, though he also deals with some modern attempts to shake that framework. As a result, most of the great philosophical isms - externalism, internalism, realism, idealism - have their day (more often, moment) in...
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Recycling or Incineration? Actually, We Need Them Both
landfilled. The fear that the ash is toxic is probably greater than it should be. Another option, ORFA, is a process designed to recycle 400 tons of waste a day. Operating in its first commercial application, in Philadelphia, the system takes unseparated garbage and converts it into a reusable fiber product. This syste...
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Security at Airports Steadily Tightening
in his luggage, which were never examined. Looking at Soft Spots Security officials said that as international traffic, including flights within Europe, increase, and as the European Community eliminates most border controls by 1992, places like Greece must not be allowed to become soft spots in the security system. Ph...
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Japan's New Farm Belt
Japanese trading company, announced that they would build a beef-processing plant in Fremont, Neb., to produce special cuts of meat for export to Japan. Japanese companies have also bought the Washington Beef Company, a processor in Yakima, Wash., and half of Colonial Beef in Philadelphia. In California, Masaaki Tanabe...
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Switch by Hispanic Catholics Changes Face of U.S. Religion
church to a middle-class church,'' said the Rev. Virgilio Elizondo, rector of San Antonio's cathedral, ''American Catholicism has become increasingly rationalized, moralistic and bureaucratic so that it does not respond to the more emotional and mystical religious feelings common among Hispanics.'' Immigration Plays a ...
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Riding Appalachia's Rapids
acres of water and a shoreline of 60 miles. The lake is so clear, with underwater visibility of from 25 to 40 feet, that scuba divers throughout the East make the trip. The New River Gorge Bridge, between Hico and Fayetteville on Route 19, spans the river with the world's longest steel arch, at 1,700 feet. The Washingt...
248032_0
Understanding and Punishing Teen-Age Violence in Park Attack
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: How could apparently well-adjusted youngsters turn into so savage a wolf pack, you ask in ''The Jogger and the Wolf Pack'' (editorial, April 26) about the attack on the jogger in Central Park. The answer is that teen-agers have a need to group, to form packs, and in these groups peer...
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130 Are Said to Die in Pirate Attack on Vietnamese Refugees
massacred or left to drown last month by pirates who attacked their boat off the Malaysian coast, refugee officials said on Friday, citing the account of the only refugee known to have survived the ordeal. About 130 Vietnamese refugees were massacred or left to drown last month by pirates who attacked their boat off th...
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U.S. and Britain Move To Tighten Air Security
bomb exploded following takeoff from London for New York, killing 270 people. Officials from both nations have stressed the importance of reaching a consensus on making sure electronic gear is not used by terrorists to conceal explosive devices, the method suspected in the Pan Am bombing. Paul Channon, the British Tran...
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NEW JERSEY Q & A: DR. JOSE LOPEZ-ISA Helping Argentina on Education
something for people who want more than a high school education but who do not want to pursue a four-year degree. Community colleges should prepare students for careers that are becoming more and more technically oriented, and that's something that can always be improved, whether it's here or abroad. Q. Where do you se...
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Understanding and Punishing Teen-Age Violence in Park Attack; Labels Distract
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: If, as you write of the youths who raped and beat a woman in Central Park, ''glib answers bear a price'' and ''labels distract from real answers,'' why, in the space of a short editorial, do you repeatedly use the term ''wolf pack'' to describe the attackers? Whatever you mean to con...
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When Crimes Become Symbols
mug him; the case both evoked and counteracted the feeling of helplessness among people who saw themselves as potential victims. The strangling of Miss Levin illustrated a subculture of underage drinking and affluent teen-agers out of control. Racial Conflict The case of Michael Griffith, a black man chased to his deat...
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Voila! In Paris, the Romance of the Century
it had on that day a century ago when the engineer Gustave Eiffel climbed 1,710 stairs to the top to declare the tower finished by unfurling a French flag from the summit. Eiffel, a bridge engineer who had previously designed the structural support system for the Statue of Liberty, had won a competition in 1885 to find...
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WHAT TO RULE THE WAVES WITH
strongholds close to shore and enemy merchant fleets at sea. The goal was to gain strategic advantage, not to look for a single decisive engagement. Stephen Decatur's raid on the harbor of Tripoli on the night of Feb. 16, 1804, is a legendary example of the American tradition at work. With a small band of volunteers, L...
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Practical Traveler; Who Can Sit by Plane Exit? F.A.A. Proposes a Rule
lawyer at the F.A.A. called a gap: the existing rule allowing airlines to control cabin seating would be overridden and an airline would be unable to prevent, for example, the seating of a group of children straight across an emergency exit row. The F.A.A. said it wanted both proposed rules, if adopted, to take effect ...
240829_0
GAUDY SPIDERS AND PUSHY ARMADILLOS
LEAD: BULOW HAMMOCK Mind in a Forest. By David Rains Wallace. 170 pp. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. $17.95. BULOW HAMMOCK Mind in a Forest. By David Rains Wallace. 170 pp. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. $17.95. In his new book, David Rains Wallace tells us about Bulow Hammock, a woodland and swamp on the east co...
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RECIPE FOR MIDEAST CONFLICT: ADD WATER
left water supplies vulnerable to insurgency. In the southern Sudan, the country's long-running civil war has stilled a major project to dredge the swamp known as the Sudd and release more water into the Nile; the project's machinery has been bombed and its foreign technicians have been driven away. The goal of the Sud...
243360_2
Farm Gene Makers' Money Woes
and food companies, like the Monsanto Company. Products of the Future So far, the companies have produced only a few products with small sales, and most of those products do not involve recombinant DNA technology, or gene-splicing, which is what is generally meant by biotechnology. In the years ahead, the industry prom...
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Magazines; Glimpsing A Day When No 2 Copies Will Be Alike
''Dear Al, ''That flannel shirt you bought three winters ago probably has a few holes in it by now. We're running a special this month that you might want to take advantage of. Take a look at the flannels on page 33 of your catalogue. Give us a call. ''All the best.'' So far, neither Bean nor any other mail-order compa...
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Videotapes Have Tips for New Sailors and Old
LEAD: MAKING a mistake on a boat can get you into trouble - far more than with most other sports. If you hit a golf ball the wrong way, the ball may land in a sand trap. But if you steer a boat the wrong direction, you and the boat may end up on the rocks. Videotapes can reduce that risk by showing you what to expect b...
237536_2
GORBACHEV SIGNS TREATY WITH CUBA
of differences in size, ethnic diveristy and history. Cuba, he said, did not have to contend with the legacy of terror and forced collectivization left by Stalin. ''Unless you consider me a kind of Stalin,'' he said jovially. ''And in that case I would say, well, all my victims are in perfect health.'' Stance on Latin ...
237481_0
Latin Intellectuals Urge Brazil to Save Amazon Rain Forest
LEAD: A group of Latin American intellectuals has called on President Jose Sarney of Brazil to put an immediate halt to ''massive deforestation'' and other ''acts of barbarism'' in the Amazon rain forest. A group of Latin American intellectuals has called on President Jose Sarney of Brazil to put an immediate halt to '...
245417_2
Anglican Heads Try to Defuse Women's Issue
to act together without compromising their convictions. In March, Bishop Barbara C. Harris, elected as a suffragen, or assistant bishop, by the Boston diocese of the Episcopal Church, became the first woman consecrated a bishop in any branch of Anglicanism. 'Episcopal Visitors' Those convinced that Scripture or traditi...
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LONG ISLAND JOURNAL
LEAD: Ms. Priest? DECIDING what to call the new priest is the first problem facing the small congregation of St. John's Episcopal Church in Oakdale. What do you call a female priest? ''I don't know,'' said Betty Voehl, whose family has attended St. John's since 1946. ''Father won't do,'' said her husband, Ms. Priest? D...
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1971: ''OUR BODIES, OURSELVES.''
LEAD: ''Our Bodies, Ourselves,'' a large-format paperback published by Simon & Schuster, was a book that was not so much written as aggregated. After a 1969 women's conference in Boston, a group of women began conducting a course on ''Women and Their Bodies'' and assembled a mimeographed study to go with it. ''Our Bodi...
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A New Procedure For Breeding Tomatoes
LEAD: The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., received a patent this week for a method of breeding better tomatoes in petri dishes. The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., received a patent this week for a method of breeding better tomatoes in petri dishes. Known as somaclonal vari...
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A Caribbean Communist Seeks New Friends
society could prove to be a challenge at a time when resentment of food rationing and housing shortages is growing. In addition, more than half the Cuban population has been born since Mr. Castro came to power. They are presumed to be hungry for the kind of change, openness and dynamism that Mr. Gorbachev represents. M...
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Gorbachev-Castro Face-Off: A Clash of Style and Policies
interview here. Soviets Want Regional Accord Mr. Komplektov said Moscow is still devoted to the proposal President Reagan rejected when Mr. Gorbachev first tendered it privately in 1987 - a mutual cutoff of military aid to the region by both superpowers. Any new proposals, the Soviet official said, would require recipr...
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DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE MACARENA
armadillos, ocelots and fresh-water dolphins, but I would not see them because from this point on human beings would interfere. Thirty thousand human beings. They had arrived over the last 20 years: fleeing violence, looking for cheap or free land, or actually sent here by agrarian reform officials who had found it eas...
242718_0
The Problems of DES Exposure Remain Real
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Fewer Problems: The Medical Record on DES Emerges After Years of Research and Anxiety'' (Week in Review, April 9) minimizes the problems of exposure to diethylstilbesterol, or DES, the drug that was once prescribed to avert miscarriages. While the cancer associated with DES has tur...
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DON'T BE CRUEL OR REASONABLE
can so confidently predict the result of imaginative investigations into cruelty; don't forget that these are to be carried out by those who do not believe in an objective ''better'' and ''worse.'' Might not the recommended television watching and book reading destroy their liberalism, leaving only their irony, for exa...
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Marrying Overseas: 'I Do' in Greece
couple's own clergy that such counseling has taken place in the United States. Banns must be posted at least two days before the couple can apply for a license, and there's a one-week waiting period after submitting the application. Roman Catholics wishing a religious wedding are not required to post banns but must sub...
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The I.R.A.'s Political Allies Run Against Its Violent Side
in the May election, and gradually build up support in the Republic to the south, where it will compete in another election in June. The party realizes that improving its standing in the Republic will be a long, slow process. A police official in Northern Ireland pointed out a paradox: Protestant loyalist groups, which...
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NATO Crisis: London Frets Over the Alliance . . . As Scars Reopen on the Continent
LEAD: The debate now straining the Atlantic alliance echoes the controversy that brought millions of demonstrators into the streets of Western Europe six years ago to protest the deployment of American medium-range missiles. The debate now straining the Atlantic alliance echoes the controversy that brought millions of ...
245166_1
Gene-Altered Farm Drug Starts Battle in Milk States
reputation among consumers who are increasingly skittish about chemicals in food. ''Our main concern about the hormone is the economic implications,'' said Julie Bleyhl, a lobbyist here with the National Farmers Union, which has 300,000 members nationwide. ''We don't see any good coming from this.'' Supporters of the d...
245142_0
France Expels Pretoria Envoys
LEAD: France said today it was expelling three South African Embassy officials to protest what it described as an illegal effort by Pretoria to acquire a stolen British Blowpipe missile in Paris. Officials said one of those being expelled was Daniel Storm, who was found in a Paris hotel on April 21 with three Protestan...
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Disabled Foster-Care Youths Kept in New York Hospitals
that time, the boy had been at Mount Sinai nine months. The judge ordered the worker to write a report on the boy and return in two weeks. The report confirmed Ms. Lerner's worst fears. The worker totally misunderstood the system and the facts. In the report, what amounted to a handwritten note on a single piece of mem...
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Rome Journal; Vatican 'Saint Factory': Is It Working Too Hard?
giving local bishops responsibility for initiating causes of canonization, the Pope ruled in 1983 that only one miracle - instead of the traditional two -would be needed in each case. A Miracle Is Needed Today, the requirements for beatification are either that a candidate died a martyr or that he lived a life of ''her...
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Poverty Doesn't Make Blacks Better Athletes
fallacy in your reasoning -and much of the tendentious reasoning employed in sociology today - is that one must know the specific nature of a physiological mechanism before one may suspect that such a mechanism exists. Such logic would have attributed to social causes the human need to eat until the actual mechanism of...
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Drive Seeks to Make Sex in Therapy a Crime
LEAD: Accusations against two psychotherapists of engaging in unethical sexual contact with patients have intensified a drive in the Massachusetts Legislature to protect patients from sexual abuse by doctors, therapists and counselors. Accusations against two psychotherapists of engaging in unethical sexual contact wit...
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Xapuri Journal; Where Back to Nature Is Wave of the Future
LEAD: Valerio da Silva slit an ancient tree trunk with his knife and quickly hooked a cup into the bark to catch the white latex oozing out. Valerio da Silva slit an ancient tree trunk with his knife and quickly hooked a cup into the bark to catch the white latex oozing out. ''A man who makes poor cuts gets a terrible ...
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Help for Rain Forests, in the Shower
LEAD: ''RAIN forests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres every minute and an area the equivalent of Central Park every eight minutes,'' said Daniel Katz, president of the Rainforest Alliance. ''We've only got basically 10 years left to save them.'' To help the cause, Maytex Mills, a home textile company, has pr...
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Brazil Needs Help, Not Scorn
LEAD: The reckless destruction of the Amazon rain forest is surely among the worst of the world's ecological disasters. Encouraged by Brazil's Government, cattle ranchers and landless settlers have set fire to huge sections of Rondonia, in western Brazil, fouling the air and laying waste to a rich and precious natural ...
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China Has Eased World Population Pressure; Preventive Measures
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: People who read only headlines would receive a distorted picture about the birth-control program in China from ''U.N. Population Plan for China Seen as Test of U.S. Attitude: Forced Abortions and Sterilizations are Policies of Beijing's'' (news story, March 12), and that might hurt c...
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China Has Eased World Population Pressure
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Soon after the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro was asked about the need for population control. ''I am a socialist,'' he responded, ''but really that is something you cannot plan.'' Mr. Castro should take a look, as I did last summer, at China's family-planning program. Intensely curi...
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Ginowan Journal; An Island of Resentment: Okinawa Feels Betrayed
to do with anti-Americanism. It has to do with Okinawa.'' Superficially the debate has centered on a series of clashes with American forces here. The paratroopers, for example, landed in a town in which many villagers committed mass suicide 44 years ago, and the Mayor was elected on a platform of banishing American for...
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Personal Health
radio waves while under the influence of a strong magnet, thousands of times the strength of the earth's magnetic field. Each type of tissue responds differently, emitting characteristic signals from the nuclei of their atoms. The signals are transmitted to a computer that translates them into a composite picture of th...
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In China, Dam's Delay Spares a Valley for Now
80,000 large dams. ''We have solved all the technical problems,'' said Yang Qisheng, a research fellow at the ministry who participated in China's most recent feasibility study. ''The challenge lies in convincing our adversaries of that.'' China's most recent feasibility study will be presented to the State Council thi...
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Reports Confirm Soviet Mining of Afghanistan; Not Free for Women
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: You report the proclamation of ''a free Muslim state'' by the Afghan guerrilla leaders seeking international recognition of their ''government in exile'' (front page, Feb. 25). Free for whom, free from what? Not only are the four Shiite Muslim Afghan groups based in Iran not consulte...
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Europe's Politicians Thinking Green As Concern Grows on Environment
Worcester said that a recent poll of 2,000 respondents found that 10 percent agreed that environmental policies would be ''crucial'' in determining their votes in June's elections to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Since December, the number of Britons calling the environment the nation's paramount issue has ris...
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Young in China Being Stirred By an Old-Time Christianity
In a nation that has stressed conformity and the unity that comes from a common faith in an encompassing ideology, Christianity threatens with competing values, loyalty and legitimacy. In China, far more than in the West, the state for centuries has regarded itself as the wellspring of moral judgment, and so it is part...
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Rio Branco Journal; A Death in the Amazon, From Symbol to Script
LEAD: The movie producer's business card read ''Beverly Hills,'' but her T-shirt proclaimed ''The Union of Acre Natives.'' The movie producer's business card read ''Beverly Hills,'' but her T-shirt proclaimed ''The Union of Acre Natives.'' ''We have a track record of movies based on true stories,'' she said, her earnes...
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About Education
retarded children. The book's subtitle, ''Don't accept me as I am,'' is his motto for active intervention, which he considers crucial in all education, for normal children as well handicapped ones. Abraham J. Tannenbaum, of Teachers College at Columbia University, warns in the book's foreword that, beyond optimism, the...
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New Yorkers Wrestle With a Crime
his own original view of the incident had been shaped by stereotypes that were reinforced by early news coverage. He said that as these views were shattered a new anxiety grew in him. ''The idea of the type of people I have to fear changed,'' he said. ''At first I thought they were kids high on drugs. The publicity sca...
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The Worst Fear
dumb beasts. As far as is now known, the Central Park attack was not, in the usual sense, a ''racial crime.'' Except for one now-disputed statement by one of those charged, the fact that the victim was white and the attackers black does not seem to have caused the crime. To the wilding young mob, a black victim, male o...
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Patents; Applications For Animals Up Sharply
of casein, an important ingredient in cheese. Most of these early applications, however, cover animals designed to aid laboratory research and ''molecular farming'' - the production of pharmaceutical proteins in modified animal cells. Diabetes Study Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, for example, has applied for...
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NEWS SUMMARY
shepherding much of the nation's biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health. 7 Computerized information by phone may be the wave of the future if a Federal court grants American Telephone and Telegraph permission to enter the market of electronic publishing. 1 A fight over seven frozen embryos, eggs from ...
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A Patchwork of Responsibilities Marks Kennedy Airport Security
explosives. The guard stations around the airport's perimeter are manned by contractors working for the Port Authority; the guards are unarmed and earn about $8 an hour. Inside each terminal, security agents who screen luggage might work directly an airline or for a private security company. Pan Am: Visible Change Pan ...
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Crimes at Historic Sites Reported to Be Down
LEAD: The vandalism and burglaries that once plagued New York City's historic homes are on the decline, curators and government officials report. The vandalism and burglaries that once plagued New York City's historic homes are on the decline, curators and government officials report. The introduction of on-site careta...
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Chaplin, Inventing Modern Times; Spinning Reels of Memory On a Master's Centenary
to stare at her in silent admiration. Once, as he watches her, bathed in smiles, she rises, goes to the corner fountain, fills up her watering can while she dreams her own dreams. Then she matter-of-factly empties the contents of the watering can directly into Charlie's face. No one meant him harm. He was just sitting ...
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IDEAS & TRENDS: Fewer Problems; The Medical Record On DES Emerges After Years of Research and Anxiety
sterile. While studies indicate that the women are more likely to have miscarriages, no other widespread problems have appeared. Medical experts do not discount the anguish the drug has caused. Even one woman who developed cancer or was infertile because her mother took DES is too much, said Dr. Lynn Rosenberg of Bosto...
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Korea Takes Steps to Loosen Import Curbs
LEAD: The South Korean Government, which has pledged to reduce a huge trade surplus with the United States to avoid the threat of penalties, said today that it planned to liberalize imports of 243 agricultural and fishery products over the next three years. The South Korean Government, which has pledged to reduce a hug...
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The Powerful Push for Self-Service
consumers are so convinced that self-service is the height of good service that they are willing to pay extra for the privilege - witness the people who pay fees for using teller machines in New York, or who pay extra to tap into data systems through their own computers. Clearly, such consumers believe that the only wa...
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Town and Gown Clash Over Housing
but disappeared around many urban campuses because of the rapid rise in real estate values over the last 10 years. ''What used to be a difficult problem has become almost intractable,'' said Raymond L. Orbach, provost of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, whose campus is...
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Making Mashed Peas Pay Off
BABY FOODWHOSE TIME HAS COME? Gerber may seem to have left little room for new competition, but Arnold and Ronald Koss, the founders of the largest producer of organic baby food, see plenty of opportunity. Indeed, their Earth's Best Inc. hopes to cash in on consumer concerns about chemicals in foods. The produce used i...
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Hands Across the Water
LEAD: Students from kindergarten to graduate school are beginning to use computers and communications satellites to break down cultural and geographical barriers while fostering greater awareness of the interdependent world and their own roles in it. Students from kindergarten to graduate school are beginning to use co...
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Hands Across the Water
year, Soviet and American students have met ''face to face'' via satellite at Tufts seven times to discuss issues such as the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the effects of the nuclear threat on art, literature and culture, and the limited nuclear test ban treaty of 1963. Future classes will address North-South relations (b...
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Answers [ to Geography Quiz ]
LEAD: Fold back to page 24. Fold back to page 24. 1. Naples. 2. Managua. 3. Soviet Union. The Diomede Islands are about two miles apart; the boundary runs between Big Diomede (U.S.S.R.) and Little Diomede (U.S.). 4. Two-thirds. Most nations have extremely small populations; more than half the world's countries have few...
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When the World Turns
share a common nerve. Clicking sounds presented to each ear follow their electrical course into the brain-stem and up to the temporal lobe of the cerebral hemisphere where hearing is registered. If there is no loss of signal, the relevant pathways are probably clear of a serious injury. The involuntary, rapid movement ...
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Democrats Call for Initiatives On Three Fronts
and teacher. It would hire ''an experienced consultant to develop the alternatives, with their costs and relative advantages,'' she said. ''There is no plan ready to be put into place if and when a funding bill is passed,'' she added. Recycling Efforts Pressed The Democrats also called for new efforts in recycling, a b...
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Tobacco May One Day Be Factory for Anti-Cancer Drugs
said that his company has developed a ''vector molecule'' that allows scientists to introduce virtually any foreign gene into tobacco plants. The vector, which is derived from a common tobacco virus, is first ''packaged'' or combined with a useful gene, for example, one that regulates production of the human protein in...
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HIGH COURT BACKS AIRPORT DETENTION BASED ON 'PROFILE'
LEAD: The Supreme Court ruled today that the Constitution permits the police to stop and question airline passengers who display behavior patterns that may have an innocent explanation but parallel the actions of drug couriers. The Supreme Court ruled today that the Constitution permits the police to stop and question ...
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Airlines Urged To Act Quickly Against Threats
Command. The Popular Front is considered by many Government experts to be the leading suspect in the Pan Am bombing. American intelligence officials noted today that several terrorist acts had been planned or executed on past anniversaries of the United States raid, including the 1988 bombing by the Japanese Red Army o...