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...resume nuclear arms-control discussions, and promised not to cut Social Security . .. Now that, by the way, was the Democratic platform. I welcome the borrowing of it by the Republicans. But I think the ones who wrote the platform are probably the best ones to implement it. And I predict that in 1988 we will get the chance...
...Doonesbury I'm a basket case for the rest of the day,' and have a cause of action. Where does it stop?" Flynt's lawyers plan to ask the judge this week to throw out the jury's finding. If he does not, legal scholars predict that the issue of emotional-distress suits against the press may ultimately have to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...
...this light, terrorism assumes a loss random mask. Contrary to President Reagan's claims after the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, terrorist attacks are not impossible to predict: certainly no one in the Administration should have been wholly surprised by American unpopularity in Lebanon, where we backed a Christian government in a now predominantly Muslim country. We cannot hope to predict where the next tragedy will hit, but some guesses are more reasonable than others. Perhaps the Philippines, where uncritical U.S. support of the heavy-handed President Marco is viewed with increasing resentment. Other good bets include Nicaragua...
Though nobody could predict how long the aging and diabetic Schroeder would survive?his only predecessor, Dr. Barney Clark, died after a courageous 112-day struggle last year?he was reported at week's end to be doing "beautifully" (see following story). But even if Schroeder dies soon, there will be more such operations, and even more complicated ones, in the near future...