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...hollow promise of this drug has led thousands of Americans away from potentially helpful therapy of scientific validity...
...that the plane designed to carry 700 soldiers or vast quantities of military gear, up to and including a 35-ton Sherman tank, had as its cargo hundreds of beach balls, installed on Hughes' orders for flotation. A few of them are still kicking around inside the great, hollow fuselage. The outside of the Goose is a beautiful white, though it was aluminum colored when it flew. The ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior...
...woman seated around tables pushed together to form a hollow square called out numbers in what seemed a mystifying code. Aides chalked the figures on blackboards, erased them almost instantly, then chalked new ones. A horse-betting parlor? Commodities trading pit? No, the meeting room of the Senate Budget Committee, which last week gave a flying start to Ronald Reagan's plan to slash federal spending...
...Salvador's leftist guerrillas launched their unsuccessful "final offensive," a squad of National Police raided a small grocery store in San Salvador. Hidden behind a hollow wall, they found a plastic garbage bag and a large suitcase, both filled with papers. At first the papers sat on a dusty, police-office desk; no one imagined that the scores of documents would provide most of the U.S. proof that the Cubans and Soviets supplied arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Their recovery was due to the enterprise, and luck, of Diplomat Jon Glassman, 37, a political counselor at the U.S. embassy...
...deaths in 1980 attributed to El Salvador's three-way civil war have indeed given the meaning of United States aid new and unpleasant connotations, but not necessarily because of "hollow" human rights ideals held by the Carter administration as your editorial suggests. Rather, several events largely unrelated to Carter foreign policy have been the reason for political disruption. First, the impact of Ronald Reagan's election has given the extreme right a feeling of immunity to economic sanctions for human rights violations and prompted all-out attacks on the left and clergy by right-wing "death squads." The left...