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Addressing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Secretary of State George Shultz sought to allay congressional fears that the Reagan Administration was recklessly risking war by scheduling large-scale military maneuvers in Central America. If U.S. forces are attacked at any time during the six-month-long maneuvers, Shultz declared, "our forces will defend themselves but they will withdraw." He added, "We have no intent to engage anyone actively...
...outbreak of an epidemic* can provoke a primal panic by raising the specter of a rampant "Andromeda strain." Indeed, perhaps the most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear...
Stern says it is convinced of the authenticity of the diaries. "We have been extraordinarily careful," declared an executive. "It is a matter of responsibility but also of pride. Nobody likes to be the victim of a hoax." To allay any lingering doubts, Stern announced last week that it would eventually turn the diaries over to the West German national archives, where historians will be free to examine them in detail. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London and B. William Mader/ Hamburg
...groups frequently lacked close, affectionate relationships with their parents. Their childhoods were commonly marked by a death or serious illness in the family that left them with anxieties about disease and dying. Such experiences, says Ford, lead both groups to make illness a way of life. Somatizers try to allay their fears by repeatedly seeking medical help; physicians strive to overcome their dread by "devoting themselves to conquering disease...
...spokesman confirmed that the Defense Department was considering lifting the ceiling on trainers. But White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry M. Speakes denied the report. Reagan settled that matter at week's end by stating that "we may want to go beyond 55." However, he was careful to allay fears of open-ended escalation. "In no sense are we speaking of participation in combat by American troops," he said. "There is no parallel whatsoever with Viet...