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...third plane escaped, and the pilot, Brothers cofounder Jose Basulto, claimed the Cubans began harassing the Skymasters as they were flying in international airspace, which begins 12 miles offshore. U.S. search craft spotted oil slicks some 20 miles off Cuba. A grim-faced President Clinton condemned "in the strongest possible terms'' what he described as "the shooting down in broad daylight of two American civilian airplanes by Cuban military aircraft." He directed U.S. Coast Guard units to conduct a continuing search-and-rescue operation and ordered U.S. military forces "to ensure that it is fully protected." Clinton also demanded that...
...well be that the more sophisticated and effective HIV treatments become, the fewer people will have access to them. This grim new calculus is painfully apparent to Patrick Roll, 41, of Boston, whose T-cell count has dropped below 50 and who takes nine capsules of the protease inhibitor saquinavir each day. Considering that he first tested positive in 1983, he is in remarkably good health. "I'm from a socioeconomic group that had careers," he notes. "We've been able to keep our insurance or afford to take it on ourselves." Not everyone is as fortunate as Roll...
...Forbes, the novelty of campaigning has worn off. Repetition is all. These days he doesn't give interviews; he endures them. A few months ago, he was the happy warrior on the trail; now he's a grim one, the flat-tax Terminator who repeats his lines by rote and marches relentlessly from event to event. While he has proved he has the fortitude for the race, some of the twinkle has gone out from behind those thick glasses...
...PARTICULARLY DIABOLICAL textbook problem for budding ethicists has been transposed to grim reality in upstate New York. In 1985 a highway accident smashed the promise of a 19-year-old Cornell University freshman, putting her into a coma-like state. Then in August someone at the Westfall Health Care Center in Brighton, N.Y., raped the helpless woman, a fact deduced last month when the woman, now 29, was found to be five months pregnant...
FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERrand had been in office just six months when his doctor gave him the grim news: the leg and back pains he had been experiencing were due to a previously undiagnosed cancer of the prostate that had spread to his bones. The prognosis was not good. Half the men in Mitterrand's condition die within three years. Only 1 in 10 survives a decade or more...