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...There are indications there was a major fire aboard, but we have no details. We understand there has been a loss of life, but we can't confirm how many," Fitzwater said. "We express the sympathy of the United States government to the Soviet government for any loss of life involved...
There was no way to confirm immediately any of the reports, which came four days after four top army officers were discharged after being accused of drug trafficking...
When a reporter called Board of Overseers member Frances Fitzgerald '62 to confirm the governing board's choice of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 as this year's Commencement speaker, Fitzgerald said with surprise, "I thought that was supposed to be sacrosanct...
...General Hospital discovered a particular piece of DNA, called a genetic marker, that seemed to be present in people suffering from Huntington's disease. His evidence suggested that the marker must be near the Huntington's disease gene on the same chromosome, but he needed a larger sample to confirm his findings. This was provided by Wexler, who had previously traveled to Venezuela to chart the family tree of a clan of some 5,000 people, all of them descendants of a woman who died of Huntington's $ disease a century ago. Working with DNA samples from affected family members...
...budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant posts...