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...decision came and went. Lists of pros and cons littered Rather's Manhattan apartment. Before leaving for work last Wednesday he promised his wife Jean that he would make up his mind that day. At 60 Minutes' offices on West 57th Street, Rather consulted with Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and other CBS colleagues, then he met with NBC News President William Small. Late that night Jean Rather finally turned to him in their living room. "You were going to make a decision today," she said evenly. "You have 17 minutes left." At long last Rather was ready: "I am going...
...Harvard psychiatrists reported this week that the drug buprenorphine may be a safer and more effective treatment for heroin addiction than the drugs currently used...
...them. That kind of equipment would be a direct provocation to India, which might then feel obliged to seek Moscow's help in modernizing its armory. British experts also feel that the Western allies should not become involved in smuggling arms to the Afghan rebels. A far safer course would be to leave that task either to China or to the sympathetic Islamic states that condemned Soviet actions at the Islamabad foreign ministers' conference. U.S. officials say that they have no plans to help the rebels directly, on the sensible ground that the guerrillas have no chance against...
...Reagan. George Bush has the image of a self-made man, if he has any image at all. More tellingly, though, there is a certain amount of support even among Republicans for one Lyndon Larouche, a "Democrat." Lyndon's workers (you may have seen them holding "Nuclear power is safer then Kennedy's car" signs in the Square), are persistent, and his campaign is well-greased. A half-hour of free t.v. time to communicate his message last week earned him some interest...
...Anticancer vaccine would be available at the neighborhood clinic. Ugly transmission lines would all be underground. People would be shopping by two-way cable television. Teaching machines would be widely used. Office work would be mostly automated. An electronic control lane for trucks and buses would make passenger cars safer on the highways...