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...grievously complicated situation, the U.S. and other powers with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon must have moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon...
Simmering tensions erupt...
...become since Hiroshima: a source of fury and wonder to Western industries; a pressure point in the U.S.-Soviet staring match; a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones moving at so hectic a pace that the nation's next volcano may erupt not from the quiescent cone of Mount Fuji but from the people themselves, who could be outrunning their...
...specialists use the latest in scientific technology to compile and compare clues about nature's threatening puzzles. Such is the work, such is the mission, such are the stakes for America's disease detectives, whose special calling it is to track invisible killers, to identify mysterious illnesses that erupt from nowhere to menace life and health. Today an elite cadre of these experts?pathologists and epidemiologists, assisted by a larger army of lab technicians and doctors?are coordinating their skills in an effort to conquer a new threat: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, the confounding killer known as AIDS...
...Intelligence Agency last year at the age of 74, after devoting most of his career to highly classified duties. A specialist in Middle East affairs, he also knew which targets in the Soviet Union would be hit under ultra-secret Pentagon war plans if a nuclear holocaust were to erupt...