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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to have little effect in premenopausal women, who respond best to a combination of chemotherapy drugs. The panel stressed that most older breast- cancer victims whose lymph nodes have not been invaded by malignant cells need neither tamoxifen nor chemotherapy after surgery, but urged that they have frequent checkups...
...opposing argument was stated by retired Admiral Noel Gaylor, a frequent critic of U.S. arms policy, in testimony last year to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Said the admiral: "The Soviet antisatellite weapon is a busted flush--slow, unreliable, clumsy and easy to countermeasure, capable of only low-altitude attack." His conclusion: "If we both stop testing now, neither side will ever have a serious antisatellite capability." Some other experts add that the U.S. would have more to lose from an ASAT race than the Soviets would, since it is more dependent on satellites to provide intelligence and coordinate military...
...faith and a language that had no written form until 30 years ago, many Hmong were simply overwhelmed by their new circumstances. In Philadelphia, where some 2,000 were unwisely placed in inner-city neighborhoods by resettlement officials, all but about 400 have scattered to other locations after falling frequent victim to street crime. In Minnesota's Ramsey County, where some 8,000 Hmong took residence in the late 1970s, nearly half are still on welfare. Says Xang Vang, a Hmong who operates a truck farm: "There are tremendous numbers of Hmong who sit in their living room watching...
...search for answers continued, tightened security arrangements went into effect at airports around the world. In Athens, the lift-off point for the hijacked TWA Flight 847, reinforced police detachments were stationed at check-in counters, and airport personnel conducted frequent hand searches of luggage. In West Germany, police used bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol terminals, and some passengers were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac before it was loaded. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration asked airlines to put into effect special procedures that included holding cargo for 24 hrs. before shipment and discontinuing curbside baggage...
...first heads of state Ronald Reagan cabled for assistance in the TWA hostage standoff was not a trusted ally of the U.S. but a frequent diplomatic adversary, Syrian President Hafez Assad. As a Soviet-armed Arab state sharing a tense 50-mile border with Israel, Syria rarely, if ever, sees eye to eye with Washington on Middle East policy. But the Administration was betting that in the current crisis U.S. interests converged in many ways with Assad's. By agreeing last week to act as the mediator in the release of 39 U.S. hostages from their Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim...