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...Some found the assurances unconvincing. "Regardless of how many disclaimers there are, the fact is that a general in the P.L.A. made a highly provocative threat about using nuclear weapons first in a conflict with the U.S.," says Evan Medeiros, an expert on the Chinese military at the Rand Corp., a think tank in Virginia. "This reinforces longstanding American concerns about China's willingness to use force over Taiwan and the potential for nuclear escalation." Near the end of his comments last week, Zhu added that he was confident the U.S. and China would not go to war "unless...
...DIED. EVAN HUNTER, 78, author who, under the pen name Ed McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street...
...part the U.S. would continue to observe arms-control measures like the never-ratified SALT II treaty, which would have expired Dec. 31. Nonetheless, until the two sides can agree on some means of verifying compliance with current accords, they may have difficulty reaching new ones. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Nancy Traver/Moscow
...capacity to react swiftly and surely. So does the difficult task of defending U.S. interests and countering the spread of surrogate Soviet regimes. Until the Pentagon faces up to the realities of low-intensity conflict, the U.S. will remain a highly visible and too often helpless target. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...recovery of the astronauts' remains. "It just brings it all back again," says Dr. Marvin Resnik, father of Judith Resnik. The Resniks want no funeral service; they have asked NASA to cremate their daughter's remains and scatter them over the ocean, where Challenger met its end. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy/Washington and Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral