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...possibility that combinations of chemicals, some of them known toxins, have caused effects in Gulf War veterans [WORLD, Sept. 30] is based upon a well-established premise: adverse drug interactions. Known instances of adverse chemical reactions are numerous. However, even more insidious hazards can arise from interaction of substances that alone pose no recognized threat to life and health...
...incredible that Washington continues to try to fix things in the Middle East that are not fixable [NATION, Sept. 16]. How can the U.S. or anyone else provide safety and stability to a people who have never got along with their neighbors and who cannot even agree among themselves? The U.S. may spend billions of dollars to buy the allegiance of the Kurds against Saddam Hussein, but the Kurds, understanding the political realities on the ground, will not stay bought. The fact that one party of Kurds begged the succor of Saddam, the man who gassed about 4,000 Kurds...
...treat the title of John Horgan's The End of Science with a grain of salt [IDEAS, Sept. 9]. Some writers scramble to make "history" when running out of topics, which is hardly the case with science. How about some humility, like the kind Sir Isaac Newton had when he saw himself as "a boy playing on the sea-shore...now and then finding a smoother pebble...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much...
...Jose Mercury News has charged that the CIA possibly cooperated with the Nicaraguan contras to flood America's black ghettos with cocaine to get money to fund the 1980s war against the Sandinista government [DIVIDING LINE, Sept. 30]. These accusations are more than a problem affecting just black America and the CIA. Senator John Kerry's committee reported in the 1980s that the CIA, the FBI and the DEA knew of the contras' drug dealings, yet drug traffickers continued to be paid by the U.S. State Department, "in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law-enforcement...
Whatever one makes of the life of McGeorge Bundy [NATION, Sept. 30], former adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he deserves more than a mention about his superb contribution to the public well-being during his 13 years as president of the Ford Foundation. I worked for the foundation under Bundy, and while he was there, he inspired a staff of independent spirits to make major advances in public broadcasting, civil rights, public-interest law, energy conservation, the education of minorities at all levels, agricultural research in developing countries and much more. RICHARD MAGAT Bronxville, New York