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...Prof. Norwood himself, he was not “obscure” prior to the conference, nor has he “returned to obscurity” as Grynbaum erroneously asserted. Norwood is the author of three critically-acclaimed books on American history (one of which won the Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History) and numerous scholarly articles, and he is co-editor of the prestigious Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. During the three months following the conference, when Grynbaum seems to think that nothing further happened on this issue, Prof. Norwood was completing a major scholarly essay...
...President George Herbert Walker Bush signed, and the U.S. Senate ratified, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This treaty, by which the ratifying nations (now numbering 188) pledge to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, has fallen on hard times. The voluntary measures originally thought to be adequate for a return to 1990 greenhouse gas emission levels (specified by the Convention) were soon recognized as ineffective...
...Some of those fears were realized in April, when the city of Hollywood, Fla., announced that it would use the AIDS test as a routine part of screening job applicants. "Candidly, we're not looking to hire somebody who may have an adverse impact on our health insurance," said Herbert Chernov, Hollywood's personnel director. "To consciously hire someone who may be dying would be foolish from a financial point of view." The city backed down when its plan was criticized by newspapers, doctors and gay leaders...
...DIED. Herbert Scoville Jr., 70, authority on nuclear arms and articulate advocate of their control; of cancer; in Washington. He worked on the development of atomic weapons for the Defense Department (1948-55), and after serving with the CIA (1955-63) devoted himself to preventing their spread and use as assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1963-69), and as head of the private Arms Control Association, an organization he helped found in 1971 to educate the public...
WEST GERMANY. For Herbert Giersch, the economy looks "quite satisfactory," especially when compared with the recession year of 1982, when the conservative government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl came to power. Growth this year is loping along at about 2.5% and should reach 3% in 1986. That's a considerable improvement over three years ago, when GNP declined 1%. Inflation is down in the same period, from...