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...Feds select possible nuclear-waste sites in three states...
...khaki uniform, decorated with rows of multicolored ribbons, always set him apart from other members of the Politburo at Kremlin receptions. With the notable exception of Leonid Brezhnev, no one else in that select group could have boasted, as he could, of being a marshal of the Soviet armed forces. But for all his military trappings, Defense Minister Dmitri Fedorovich Ustinov, whose death last week at the age of 76 opened up a key post in the Kremlin hierarchy, was a civilian engineer who had never commanded soldiers on the battlefield...
...shared the pinnacle moment last week in Washington with Singer Lena Home, 67, Opera Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, 73, Playwright Arthur Miller, 69, and Violinist Isaac Stern, 64. The quintet were receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the arts. They join a select company of only 30 other recipients...
...extent of the famine was brought home last week to Texas Democratic Congressman Mickey Leland. Chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger. After completing a five-day visit to two Ethiopian relief stations. Mekele and Korem, he described the experience with a quavering voice: "It was incredible to me. The suffering of those little children in the hospital in Mekele-never have I seen anything so horrifying...
...first case, we think it unfair for students in a few select majors not to be allowed to graduate in their concentration simply because they do not meet the presumably high standards for honors. Undergraduates should be allowed to graduate in the field in which they have truly concentrated rather than forced into a backup major at the last minute or into the nether world of general studies...