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Other military experts, like Washington's Anthony Cordesman, consultant and author of the forthcoming book The Iran-Iraq War: 1984-1987, counsel more caution. Says Cordesman: "The key factor is to allow Iran to determine the level of escalation. The U.S. must not be perceived as escalating the conflict." U.S. military planners last week were hewing closely to Cordesman's line and planning for contingencies based on the nature of any foreseeable Iranian provocations. If Iran were to fire upon an American vessel with its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles, for example, the U.S. would most likely seek to destroy...
DIED. James Burnham, 81, pungent conservative columnist, author (The Managerial Revolution) and apostate Trotskyist who in 1955 became a founding editorial-board member of William F. Buckley's National Review; in Kent, Conn. The Chicago-born Burnham won renown for books (The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism) that warned of an inevitable U.S.-Soviet confrontation. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...expected to turn out a preliminary report on the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in 90 days. Meanwhile, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the drug AZT prevents patients with only a few symptoms of AIDS from fully developing the disorder. Says Co-Author Margaret Fischl of the University of Miami: "The next step will be to try the drug on people who test positive for the virus but have no symptoms...
...nearly a million Americans who suffer the double jeopardy of mental illness and chemical dependence. "Only in the past few years have mental health professionals realized how devastating the combination can be," says John Talbott, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland and co-author of a study commissioned by the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) that will be released next week. Says Talbott: "There is no such thing as recreational drug use or a social drink for someone with a severe psychiatric illness...
...frustrating manhunt for the Green River Killer drags on in Seattle. -- Are the Feds out to get Author Norman Mailer...