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...researchers caution, however, that the drugs are not effective for patients with more severe colon cancer, in which the malignancy has already spread throughout the body. Nor have studies shown a benefit for those patients whose cancers were detected at an early stage. Still, Dr. Michael Friedman of the National Cancer Institute called this first success for drug therapy against colon cancer a "terrific intellectual breakthrough." The institute has alerted 35,000 cancer doctors across the country. And some experts are hopeful that the findings will lead to similar therapies for other cancers...
...lingered from last year's presidential campaign over whether Bush had the heart to use power. The explanations of inaction from his Secretaries of State and Defense and his White House staff have echoes of almost every sad incident of our times, going back to Pearl Harbor. Bush's caution will probably not displease the bulk of American people now. But history sorts out the facts and is a harsher judge, not influenced by popularity polls...
After months of coolness and caution, the U.S. and the Soviet Union suddenly seem consumed by arms-control fever. First, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze ended their tete-a-tete in the Tetons by announcing plans for a spring summit. A few days later, George Bush and Shevardnadze were at the United Nations competing to see who could get rid of chemical weapons faster...
...part, this attitude reflects Bush's deeply ingrained caution about doing "something dumb," as Baker put it last week. It also suits the hard-line doubters, like NSC deputy Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Vice President Dan Quayle, who think Gorbachev is only a short-timer and the Soviet Union will never really change...
Still Spence's defenders say his caution is anintegral part of his method: To work effectively,Spence reasons, he must understand problemsthoroughly before attacking them...