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After months of battling AIDS-related illness, Ryan White, the Kokomo school boy with hemophilia, was eager to get back to Western Middle School and his friends this fall. Unfortunately, school officials do not want the seventh-grader in class. Though doctors believe that AIDS is not communicated through casual contact, School Superintendent J.O. Smith fears that Ryan poses too much of a risk to other students. He points to warnings from the Indiana board of health about the risks of exposure to AIDS-infected saliva and body fluids. "What are you going to do about someone chewing pencils...
...work, has been powerfully revived off-Broadway in a production that demonstrates it may be his best play. Shepard charts with savage humor the cruelties exchanged among a grindingly poor rural family. Slaughtering their animals has inured them to violence. Sharing the isolation of farm life has made them eager to sneak off. Knowing one another's sore spots has only rendered their aim more deadly. The plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge in sentiment about vanishing ways of life...
...must order Japan to reduce its catch of fish in American waters by 50%. That would be a serious economic blow to the Japanese, who took in roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million metric tons of fish caught by foreigners off U.S. shores last year. The Administration, not eager to rock its relations with Japan, may ask the Court of Appeals for a rehearing of the case and could possibly take the issue to the Supreme Court. The outcome will determine when Japan's whalers will have to hang up their harpoon guns. STOCK TRADING An Insider Faces Jail...
...football, which divides a pot of national televison money equally among its 28 teams, baseball relies more on local television revenue. The owners in big media markets, such as George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees and Peter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers, understandably are not eager to share their advantages with less well-endowed clubs, like the Seattle Mariners. They argue, with some justification, that the prices they paid to get into the game reflected their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners...
American officials began to view the Bomb as a way to avoid the need for Soviet involvement in the Pacific war, rather than viewing Soviet involvement as a way to avoid the need for the Bomb. Secretary of State James Byrnes, Truman's closest confidant on atomic matters, was eager to "get the Japanese affair over before the Russians got in" and felt that knowledge of America's new weapon would make the Soviets "more manageable." Secretary of War Henry Stimson, perhaps the most respected U.S. statesman of the century, was wary of using the Bomb as a diplomatic bludgeon...