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Despite those notes of caution, one Soviet official said he believed that at last week's visit to Moscow by Secretary of State George Shultz, groundwork was laid for a summit meeting this year between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...avoid raising false hopes among cancer victims, researchers tend to use caution in reporting even the most promising advances in treatment for the dread disease. Yet two articles published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, while containing caveats, seemed reason for guarded optimism. Both dealt with a controversial treatment known as adoptive immunotherapy, which involves the use of a naturally produced substance, interleukin-2 (IL- 2), to bolster a patient's immune system. Both reported striking improvements in some patients with advanced cases of cancer...
...little crazy," said Hilton Director Bill Parousis, smiling as he oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week," and the island's lone druggist, Ed Walsh, reported a brisk business in the ten brands he stocks...
...headed by Israel's late Chief Justice, Yitzhak Kahan, in 1982-83 to investigate the massacre of Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Shamir dismissed their demands as "hysterical and unjustified." When former Foreign Minister Abba Eban pressed doggedly for such an investigation, Shamir urged caution. "Certain people generate echoes when they speak," Shamir told Eban, "and hence they should think twice before making a declaration." Later, when Eban announced that the Knesset's seven-member intelligence subcommittee would proceed with an inquiry of its own, Shamir for a time considered forbidding government officials to testify...
...thrill of cheap energy may prove perilously intoxicating. As U.S. energy consumption increases, imports are reaching alarming levels. At the same time, depressed oil prices have caused U.S. petroleum production and exploration to dwindle dangerously. This means, experts caution, that America is setting a time bomb. The scary possibility is that by the mid-1990s, as the U.S. becomes dependent on foreign oil for more and more of its consumption, OPEC could suddenly and steeply raise prices, throwing the economy into chaos. Warns Interior Secretary Donald Hodel: "OPEC is being placed back in the driver's seat...