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...commission hearing two weeks ago, however, the Norfolk supporters got a shock. Though Norfolk is the only one of the three yards on the list that can overhaul aircraft carriers, commission members pointed out that a private firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., just down the road from Norfolk, would be willing and able to pick up that business. In fact, Newport News is short of work and earlier this month laid off 1,000 workers...
...Brooks presented allegations of a Justice Department cover-up, Reno listened impassively -- and it is not clear precisely what, if anything, she may do about it. "I know she's giving it serious consideration," says Rose, who realizes, just as Reno does, that a full-scale investigation could send shock waves through Washington and corporate suites. That hasn't deterred Jack Brooks, who has already introduced a bill -- his first of the new Administration -- to renew the office of special counsel. If Reno doesn't move, its first task may be to investigate the Justice Department's handling...
...preparation, it still comes as a shock near the end to see Tom's emaciated face staring at the camera and to hear Mark's quavering voice: "This is the first of July, and Tommy's just died." The succeeding scenes are equally brutal -- a medical official taking down the vital statistics, the corpse being wrapped in a body bag. The film ends, heartbreakingly, with a flashback to Tom and Mark dancing in front of the camera in that spirited documentary of 15 years earlier...
Investigators cannot dismiss the possibility that they are dealing with a new killer, given the emergence of such ailments as Legionnaires' disease, toxic-shock syndrome and AIDS over the past two decades. Modern life is constantly creating new opportunities for microbes, warns author and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Richard Krause of the National Institutes of Health. Legionnaires', he notes, developed because air-conditioning ducts created a new breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing...
...referendum among whites with more than a two-thirds majority, and they had a very clear picture of the ultimate goal we had in mind. So I think the shock of the change away from the old to the new system has already been accommodated by most whites...