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...dispensing the good tidings of ever more effective treatment, both books serve to dispel the paralyzing terror that the very word cancer engenders. As Curtis Bill Pepper points out, for early detection people must shed their fears sufficiently to go for routine cancer checkups. Once a diagnosis of malignancy has been made, the afflicted may have to take aggressive action. This could involve collisions between the patient and his family doctor and a tough-minded struggle for an appointment with an appropriate oncologist at one of the "comprehensive cancer centers" such as New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
...audience early on the Cabot House Production of Cabaret never completely ensnares us. The play offers views of both a presumably typical Berlin music-hall in the early 1930s and the particular strains on relationships at the time, but occasional unevenness and sluggishness in performances and direction too often dispel strong promises for both lasciviousness and poignancy. Unfortunately, even several strong performances and specific scenes cannot carry this tale of decadent. Nazi-ascendent Berlin...
...Gumaa was in relatively good shape when he was captured, which would imply he was killed later by the Israelis. The official statements have done little to dispel the mystery. The first announcement, coming about an hour after the commando raid, did not mention the terrorists at all, while the second statement eight hours later simply said all four had been killed. It was not until the next day that an Israeli army spokesman stated that "two terrorists were killed when our forces broke into the bus. The other two died later, on the way to the hospital...
...revival of cultural and scientific exchanges. Plans to open the consulates had been postponed and the exchanges halted in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Shultz, for one, hopes that these small steps will lead to greater diplomatic leaps. Reagan's political advisers hope that they will dispel the growing perception that the President is too rigid in dealing with the Soviets and unable to choose between his feuding advisers. But the aging leaders in the Kremlin, plagued by their own internal disarray, show little desire to see these vague hopes fulfilled-at least not in a year...
...they're still living in that legend," says Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder, eager to dispel the notion that three straight stellar years will automatically become four...