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...every case, we have received angry letters from students who claim that our accusations are baseless and false--that athletes and legacies are generally just as qualified as everyone else...
After news of the undercover squads broke in the foreign press, the Israeli government suspended the credentials of three journalists for failing to submit their stories to the military censor. "These reports are totally baseless," said army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. "The undercover units are subject to military discipline and full supervision." Perhaps, but covert operations have a troubling habit of going awry -- or going...
...marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, thinks it a "sad commentary" that President Reagan referred to her husband as an "invalid" last August, after baseless rumors circulated that he had once sought counseling. "Everyone who needs help should be able to get it," she says. "It should never become a political decision...
...presidential commission on AIDS recommended that he do so. Recent surveys indicate that 25% of Americans do not want to work beside an AIDS carrier. And 40% do not want someone with AIDS living in their neighborhoods. The Administration's silence on this issue has sanctioned prejudice and baseless fears that will drive AIDS carriers to conceal their condition, making the epidemic that much harder to combat. To their credit, both Bush and Dukakis have said they will support antidiscrimination legislation...
...earlier. Even the Vice President's aides privately agreed. A few of them came close to panic during the debate, fearful that Bush's skittish performance would create a reaction that "could roll out of control," as one adviser put it. Their sudden anxiety turned out to be as baseless as Dukakis' new brio. By week's end a TIME poll flashed a different verdict: the public credits Dukakis as a debater but leans to Bush for President...