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...assertion nonetheless makes Pakistan a potential ninth member of the nuclear club.* And it confirmed widespread reports that within the past year Pakistani scientists had acquired or learned how to produce all the components of an atomic bomb, including a nuclear triggering device and weapons-grade uranium. Zia insists that Pakistan has not yet manufactured enriched uranium -- an assertion that is doubted by some observers, including U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Deane R. Hinton. Indeed, Zia seemed to imply that Pakistan could produce a bomb within a month, a deadline that most scientists consider would be difficult to meet unless weapons...
...decision involved the case of Gene Arline, who in 1979 was dismissed as a third-grade teacher after she suffered her third flare-up of tuberculosis symptoms in two years. The school board in Nassau County, Fla., said it feared she could spread the disease. Bitter "after what they did to me," Arline sued, arguing that she was protected by the 1973 federal Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against the handicapped by recipients of federal funds. The trouble was that the law made no specific mention of contagious diseases...
...social-studies and home-economics texts purvey man-centered views at the expense of belief in God, enjoined use of the books in any class except a "comparative-religion course that treats all religions equivalently." The next day school officials in Mobile called in the books, including the eleventh grade's sole history text...
Rainey's initial exposure to competitive racing came in fourth grade, when she joined the Atlas Track Club of Brooklyn, N.Y., and trained under Coach Fred Thompson--who will be the assistant coach of the 1988 U.S. Olympic Track Team...
...other interests interfered with her running, and so in the seventh grade Rainey chose to stop racing competitively...