Subject: What's News -- World-Wide
Date: Published: 3/4/88 25 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    What's News -- 
    World-Wide

    THE HOUSE REJECTED a $30.6 million aid package for the
Nicaraguan Contras.
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   Researchers in New York City found that the risk of
suicide among men afflicted with AIDS is 66 times higher than
among the general population.  Based on an investigation of
all 1985 suicides in the city, the study found a suicide rate
of 9.3 per 100,000 people among the general population, but
680 per 100,000 among men with the disease.
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