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...Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...
...main goal of the first six-month trial will be to assess the vaccine's safety. If all goes well, scientists will eventually try to determine its efficacy in preventing infection by administering it to large groups of people at high risk of developing AIDS. The answer is hardly around the corner. Says Fauci: "It will be a considerable time, probably the mid-1990s, before any vaccine, including this one, will be ready for general...
...visible side of Iranian life today -- the hundreds of thousands who march in support of Khomeini's pledge to exact vengeance from Iraq, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia -- underscores the fact that the Islamic government still enjoys considerable support. The invisible side is more difficult to assess, but there is evidence of a growing discontent among many Iranians, particularly the educated and the well...
After U.S. officials discovered that their new $192 million embassy in Moscow had been equipped with wall-to-wall Soviet bugs, they tapped former Defense Secretary and Central Intelligence Agency Director James R. Schlesinger to assess the damage and figure out a way to deal with it. Last week Schlesinger confirmed that the situation was bad -- but maybe not as disastrous as it initially seemed. His recommendation: that the U.S. salvage the first five of the eight floors for routine use, rebuild the top three floors to make them bugproof, and construct a new six-story annex to house...
...blamed the State Department and other Government agencies for recognizing the problem so late. Schlesinger admitted that U.S. experts still did not fully understand how the eavesdropping system worked, but he credited unnamed U.S. technicians with inventing a new detection device that enabled them to assess the damage. They "deserve a medal," said Schlesinger, whose suggestions conflict with a Senate proposal calling for the replacement of the compromised chancery with a new structure built from scratch. Though the House has not yet voted on the proposal, many Senators remained skeptical toward the Schlesinger plan. Labeling it a "half measure," South...