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...honor the pact, arguing that if it were tossed aside, the Soviets would be able to add new warheads much more quickly than the U.S. Some officials are worried about signs that the Soviets may soon resume testing of the SS-16, a mobile intercontinental missile that was forbidden by SALT...
Throughout the ages, leprosy has been looked upon with contempt and horror. The Bible enjoins lepers to "dwell alone," wear torn clothing and cry out "Unclean, unclean." In the Middle Ages lepers were barred from public buildings, forbidden to speak with children and required to sound a bell or clapper. The very word leper came to mean outcast...
...hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should probably be forbidden the use of Emerson until their 30th birthday. He gets better as one gets older. Inside the marble, there is a wonderful writer struggling to escape the stone reverence with which he is usually imposed on adolescents...
...friend from high school days. Her daughter was under a form of mind control, said Marita Riethmiller, and "had become like a robot, glassy-eyed." When several doctors, psychiatrists and church groups refused to intercede, the Riethmillers sought out controversial California Deprogramming Specialist Ted Patrick, 52. Patrick, however, is forbidden to take on clients as a condition of probation on an earlier conviction related to deprogramming. So he referred them to Naomi Faye Goss, 25, of Cedar Bluff, an ex-Moonie he had deprogrammed just last year; James Roe, 25, of San Diego, a friend...
...unprecedented step, the religious leadership stripped Shariatmadari of his title of marja ' (guide), the highest position in the Shi'ite Muslim priesthood. The ayatullah, 78 and ailing, was apparently not arrested. It is forbidden under Islamic law to execute a religious leader of Shariatmadari's stature. His downfall, however, was seen as another victory for the religious hardliners. Under the constitution, the successor for the role faqih, or supreme theologian, must be chosen before Khomeini dies. But the process has bogged down in a morass of clerical rivalries. At the time the alleged plot was revealed, some...