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Agent Orange was widely used in Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal enemy forces; only later did scientists become aware of the potentially dangerous long-term effects of dioxin, which has produced cancers in animals. The defoliant has been suspect ever since unknown numbers of Vietnam veterans developed various cancers or fathered seriously handicapped children. Based on the inability to prove a conclusive link between those ailments and Agent Orange, the Reagan and Bush administrations refused to compensate veterans for all but a few of these health problems. But critics charge that no clear connections have...
...defendant: former billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. The now bankrupt Saudi Arabian arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...concern in the abrupt shift by the Soviet Union. While Moscow continues to provide arms, relations between the two nations began cooling well before Gorbachev's summit with Roh. In April Radio Moscow broadcasts criticized North Koreans as "completely brainwashed." Soviet officials accompanying Gorbachev to the summit could barely conceal their impatience with Pyongyang...
...second night among more vagrants at a skid row mission. Throughout most of her 48 hours on the streets, she went unrecognized -- until Sister Raymonda, a nun who has known the mayor for years, spotted her resting on a bench reading the paper and whispered, "If you want to conceal your identity, you should remember that homeless women don't read the financial pages...
...deeper problem in Branagh's approach of demythologizing the plays and diminishing their epic heroes to shopkeeper scale -- as he also determinedly does in the film Henry V -- is that he tends to conceal or cut out the glories that make Shakespeare unique. Lear, for example, drops much of the high-flown language and reduces the former King's mad scenes in the storm and at Dover from symphonies to single brief movements. As played by Richard Briers, this is no autumnal monarch but a mediocre middle manager peevishly protesting his pink slip...