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...foreword by James Alan McPherson and an afterward by John Casey, writers with whom Pancake worked at the University of Virginia. The give us an idea of the talented troubled man who wrote these stories and tactfully offer a few hints to the mystery of his suicide. They confirm what the stories have already shown us: Breece Pancake intimately knew loneliness and failure of communication. Ironically, the deep knowledge which makes these stories so powerful may have helped make them his last...
While all this delicate jockeying was going on, Reagan suffered an arms control setback of a quite different sort at the hands of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-a wound that was, in a sense, self-inflicted. The committee refused to confirm Kenneth Adelman, 36, now the deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, which supervises the U.S. negotiators. The committee of nine Republicans and eight Democrats had been expected narrowly to approve Adelman, sending the nomination to the floor. There the Administration expected to win confirmation after a stiff...
...usual, there was no way to confirm the exaggerated claims made by either side, since no foreign journalists were allowed at the front. But U.S. Intelligence officials said each side probably had about 100,000 troops poised for battle, and casualties were believed to be heavy. Throughout the week, the Iranians repeatedly launched "human wave" assaults in the face of heavy Iraqi resistance, only to fall back and press forward again. Residents of the Iranian city of Ahwaz, 100 miles from the fighting, reported that the local morgue, which can handle 2,000 bodies, was filled to capacity with...
Today's statement by the NIH calls for an on-site review, a year from now, of the laboratory in which Darsee worked. The inquiry will be to "confirm the impression of the NHLBI panel that current laboratory procedures and supervision of research are adequate," a synopsis of the statement reads...
...Switzerland, customs officials called the matter "embarrassing." In Washington, the Commerce Department would not confirm that the case was under investigation, but expressed grave concern. In Moscow, KGB officials were believed to be jubilant over a victory on one of the newest frontiers of espionage: the theft of Western industrial technology...