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Japan has joined a host of other nations that are striving to enter a fiercely competitive new space race. After the U.S. shuttle program was grounded last year by the Challenger tragedy, NASA ceased to be the world's principal carrier of commercial space cargo. Following President Reagan's announcement in August that future U.S. shuttle flights would carry few commercial payloads, space agencies from Peking to Paris have been hustling for their share of a world satellite-launching business that could be worth $2 billion to $5 billion annually...
Civil liberties lawyers are also concerned about the threat of discrimination based on compulsory-testing results. (For this reason, most voluntary AIDS tests offered today are done anonymously.) Once identified as a carrier of the AIDS virus, an individual runs the risk of losing friends, employment, housing and insurance. In New York City, 314 AIDS discrimination complaints were filed in 1986 alone. Says Nan Hunter, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The antibody test is not like other medical blood tests. People don't lose their jobs because they have B-positive blood...
...Muslim terrorists over the release of some or all of the kidnap victims in exchange for the 400 prisoners. As the guessing game continued, pessimism grew about an agreement anytime soon. With rumors shifting almost by the hour, Washington kept the Sixth Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and six other warships were ordered to leave the port of Haifa in Israel after a six-day call, and resumed sea patrol. Meanwhile, anxiety deepened further over the fate of Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, who vanished last month while seeking freedom for the American captives...
...from being transmitted. But Dr. Marcus Conant of the California department of health task force on AIDS cautions against thinking of condoms as a panacea. "They are not a surefire way to avoid pregnancy," he points out, "and it is probably just as easy to catch AIDS ((from a carrier)) as to get pregnant...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...