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...Soviets would be to assure that the rebels have a sufficient and steady supply of arms and ammunition. A number of experts suggest that the U.S. provide such supplies, not directly but through Pakistan, China and perhaps other third parties. The Administration has been considering this, but refuses to confirm or deny whether it has already been providing such support...
...Soviets confirm the charges of cold warriors, who say the Afghanistan invasion is part of a master-plan to seize Middle Eastern oil, then America will have to face the possibility of military responses. But no vital American interests have been threatened in Afghanistan, which has had a pro-Soviet government for two years now. If the Soviet troops leave Afghanistan once their puppet government is secure, all the military rhetoric being spouted today in Congress and the White House will look ridiculous. Afghanistan offers us a clear choice: old reflex responses that got us into our present bind...
...Ruina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences. The two Harvard members are Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and an expert in X-ray astronomy, and Richard L. Garwin, professor of Public Policy and a specialist in particle physics. The White House has refused to confirm the identities of committee members, and asked committee members not to comment on its findings...
...ground. When excavation is completed, the cavern will be lined with synthetic rubber and filled with 10,000 tons of exceptionally pure, filtered water. Then, about two years from now, physicists will begin looking in the pool for flashes of light that could signal the decay of protons, confirm a unifying theory of nature, and end the cherished notion that matter is permanent...
...form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called to the White House in March 1944, the physician found that the cancer had metastasized-perhaps to the gastrointestinal tract; several sources confirm that Roosevelt experienced abdominal pains. Cancer could also account for F.D.R.'s accompanying loss of appetite and weight. Further, it would explain why Roosevelt gave his son James funeral instructions shortly after his last Inaugural...