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...DIED. R. DAVID ("DAVE") THOMAD, 69, founder of Wendy's International Inc., which has more than 6,000 stores worldwide; in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Named for one of Thomas' daughters, the chain took on McDonald's with square patties ("at Wendy's we don't cut corners"), chocolate frosties and baked potatoes. The genial Thomas was its pitchman in more than 800 television spots. DIED. ALEXANDER PROKHOROV, 85, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in inventing laser technology; in Moscow. Prokhorov's contribution created a whole new realm of science: optical technology. DIED. WANG RUOSHUI...
...Reagan's Pentagon chief, Frank Carlucci, and James Baker, George Bush's Secretary of State and the man who helped George W. win his election struggle in Florida. United Defense has decided to assemble the gun in a factory expressly built for the program near the artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla. The fort is represented in Congress by g.o.p. Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Representative J.C. Watts, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House's fourth-ranking Republican. Both have exhorted the Army to buy the Crusader...
...past few months, it's become nearly impossible to buy Ketaset in New York City's underground drug market. Made by Fort Dodge, an Iowa-based pharmaceutical firm, Ketaset is a brand of ketamine, a compound that blocks certain neuroreceptors, causing hallucinations in high doses and, in lower doses, a fuzzy dissociation--like the warmth of a couple of Jim Beams. Legally, it's used as an anesthetic. Illegally, one snorts ketamine because the fuzziness lasts half an hour and doesn't produce bourbon's four-Advil hangover...
While most of Harvard returns home for the holidays, a few intrepid souls will hold the fort and spend the vacation on campus, despite the prospects of poor heating in the dorms and scarcity of food...
...uncompromising idealism of Nader is cause for admiration. Nader is exercising a right we have in this country to run for public office. Why the negativity? I think he offered a refreshing alternative to Al Gore and George W. Bush, and made the process more interesting. JEFF KLINE Fort Worth, Texas...