Cocaine use and post office reform mix in brief
A Senate staff report estimates nearly 2.2 million Americans are hard core cocaine addicts, with one percent using weekly and about one fifth of arrestees in such use. In New York, one in 40 is a user, while only about 10 percent enter treatment. Also: Hungary’s League of Free Democrats asks Parliament to leave the Warsaw Pact and seek neutrality, echoing 1956. Postmaster General Frank pushes change and higher rates amid service concerns. Charleston touts manners as Hurricane Hugo recedes. Estonia proposes a Baltic States council to coordinate potential independence from the Soviet Union.
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Read On Album Warning Labels
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60 Foot Lobsters Loom Over Portland Gas Station Design
Portland, Maine AP The winning entries in a national design contest to decorate a rundown mid-1950s gas station include a 60-foot-long lobster motif and four giant red lobsters, plus a dinosaur design. Judges praised the scale and potential landmark status while noting CN Brown may not use the designs.
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GAO says criminal tracking system at borders flawed
The GAO reports that the Treasury Enforcement System II contains inaccurate data and gaps, potentially letting criminals slip through while innocent travelers are blocked. The Times notes border agents may lack key lookout records for drug smugglers and other majors, based on 70 investigated cases last June.
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New AIDS drug DDI shows promise with cautions
Boston reports two small studies in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate the experimental drug DDI can help AIDS patients gain weight and feel better but may cause severe side effects such as pancreatic harm. A major nationwide trial compares DDI to AZT, with about 800 participants in the trial and 8600 patients using DDI under an early-access program.
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Iran calls for release of hostages in Lebanon ordeal
Sidon Lebanon AP Iranian Charge d Affaires Mohammad Zamanian urged the release of all hostages including four missing Iranian diplomats seized in Christian Beirut in July 1982 during the Israeli invasion. He said the four are believed alive though details remain unresolved amid broader hostage negotiations and regional tensions after Iran’s involvement in the rescue of two Americans.
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Zone based forecast for Kansas and surrounding states with tonight and Friday conditions. It details partly cloudy periods, rain chances, and highs from the mid 60s to upper 70s, plus notes on Clinton Lake temperature and level, Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma and Colorado conditions, and road condition contacts. The report lists wind shifts and precipitation probabilities across multiple zones and regions.
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