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Federal efforts to reach drug abusers are just beginning. This October NIDA will embark on a three-year pilot program in 15 cities aimed at reaching IV drug users, their sex partners and prostitutes. They will be urged to enter methadone-treatment programs, use condoms and get AIDS-virus testing and counseling. Some black leaders complain, however, that too much of the federal AIDS-education programs and funds is aimed at white, middle-class students, rather than at the young, inner-city IV addicts and their sexual partners, who are much more at risk. For the moment the Reagan Administration...
Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultzboth said they fought hard against that policy butfailed to convince the president. Weinberger saidthe way to avoid such damage in the future is "notto embark on a policy of this kind...
...been supplied to people by private companies for years. The great amount of it is done under public authorities, and many of them tell us they would be able to run very much more efficiently if they were able to run their own operation. Also we shall then embark upon privatizing electricity, which you ((in the U.S.)) are used to. And then we'll have a look at other things and see how best we can bring them onto the market -- always, I must say, giving the people who work in those enterprises the first chance to purchase shares...
...eight Presidents, recalls a 1953 fight with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to exclude a sentence on Chinese expansionism from an Eisenhower speech just before the Korean War armistice. (Nitze won.) In the summer of 1962 Walt W. Rostow and his staff predicted that Nikita Khrushchev would soon embark on high-risk foreign policy moves. Rostow and other officials met each Thursday over lunch at the State Department to think through a response. "We said that if the U.S. stayed firm, he'd back away," recalls Rostow, 70. Indeed, when President John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade...
Radcliffe First Marshal Susan Doherty '87 praised the Governor who is now in his second term. "We trust that his example of leadership will provide an inspiration to all of us graduating seniors as we embark upon our respective careers," she said...