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...make of this story? Is the treatment a miracle cure? Or is it a mirage that cruelly raises the hopes of AIDS sufferers -- the medical equivalent of cold fusion? No one, and certainly not journalists, can know the answers. The case illustrates the press's growing lack of restraint in medical coverage, especially where AIDS is concerned. CNN called the treatment "experimental and controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood-heating procedure as a major development. That outraged many medical experts...
When the worst rioting in more than two years later erupted among Israeli Arabs, many feared that the intifadeh was spreading into Israel proper. As reinforcements poured into the territories, President George Bush pointedly urged Israel to exercise "maximum restraint." Secretary of State James Baker said the U.S. might discuss the deployment of U.N. observers, a measure debated at a special U.N. session in Geneva last week, underscoring American displeasure with Israel's refusal to engage in a peace dialogue. The army's massive crackdown eventually cooled the widespread rioting in the territories, after three days of violence left...
Gregorian said he believes Bok will speak out on social and educational concerns more forcefully once he is no longer bound by his high-profile position. "He may be able without any restraint to speak with much more forcefulness on these issues," Gregorian said...
...festering crisis in the Baltics is only the most obvious manifestation of the problem and by no means the most alarming. The resolve of the leaders there is still tempered with restraint. That is not necessarily so in the southern republics. Speaking privately in Tbilisi two weeks ago, one of Georgia's most popular nationalist leaders denounced as "traitors and collaborationists" any of his countrymen who participate in Soviet-approved parliamentary elections this fall. Such epithets give off a distinct aroma of gunpowder...
Suggestions of restraint, though, were easily overwhelmed by party-hearty marketing themes. In the Miller tent, the company was giving away neon baseball caps to anyone who could show proof of purchase for two cases of the beer. Up the beach, Anheuser-Busch had installed a 20-ft.-tall inflatable six- pack of Budweiser. Poolside at Howard Johnson, Bacardi was advertising rum- and-orange-juice cocktails for 25 cents. Read a marquee outside one beachfront bar: PARTY 'TIL YOU PUKE...