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...threatens U.S. forces," said Reagan, America must maintain "a limited retaliatory capability of its own, until we achieve an effective ban." In fact, while negotiations proceed, Reagan plans to go ahead and modernize the U.S. chemical arsenal, which has been in mothballs since 1969. In addition, the U.S will insist on the right to inspect for Soviet chemical weapons not only on "declared sites," where they are known to be manufactured, but anywhere it suspects they might be made. The Soviet news agency TASS immediately branded the offering "nothing short of a propaganda trick" and accused Reagan of trying...
...some Christian sects, opposition to medicine is sweeping: Herbert W. Armstrong, leader of the Worldwide Church of God, calls vaccines "monkey pus" and likens the use of physicians to worship of pagan gods. Christian Science urges its adherents to conquer illness by prayer, but allows them, if they insist, to consult doctors. Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden blood transfusions but are allowed other medical procedures. Ironically, because Witnesses are permitted to consult doctors, they have been involved in many legal cases: if the ailing child of a church member requires a transfusion after being hospitalized, a court order...
...students' refusal to become part of a system designed to keep control of people's lives--by promoting insidious racial and sexual distinctions, by making concessions on minor points, by all the marketing techniques made possible by modern technology, and ultimately, as in Indochina, by killing people who insist on resisting. That's why it's still important to understand the real issues of 1969. The lawlessness and violence liberals complained of came mostly from the administration and the police, but even if that hadn't been so, laying exclusive stress on it would obscure the real issue--the Strike...
...bickering. Instead, it created a new crisis around the leadership of the two most powerful rebel organizations: the 3,000-member Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), led by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and the 4,000-member People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), headed by Joaquín Villalobos. The guerrillas insist that the struggle has been resolved. So, in a way, it has: Carpio died under mysterious circumstances last year at 63, and his group has suffered a splintering of its forces. Villalobos, 32, has emerged as first among equals in the revolutionary hierarchy...
...reassure the world in such an intensive way that I was not only competent, I was also quite "steady." But newsmen, canny skeptics that they are, were stimulated by all this reassurance to ask themselves, and their readers: If this fellow is really all right, why do they insist on telling us that he's all right...