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...situation was clearly irritating to Bush, who at week's end suffered a heartbeat irregularity that is often associated with stress. Stricken with shortness of breath while jogging at Camp David, the President was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where initial tests showed no serious heart damage. The incident took the spotlight off the high-flying chief of staff -- but only momentarily...
That moderate proposal seems sensible, but it won't be easy to realize. No matter how much scientific support the stricken industry receives, it hasn't a hope of getting back on its feet without lots of help from Washington, and for the moment that looks uncertain...
Congressman Robert Dornan, a California Republican, is avidly pushing a proposal he feels would benefit both the stricken Kuwaiti economy and the thousands of Vietnamese languishing in camps all over southeast Asia. "The Vietnamese refugees," wrote Dornan to the Emir of Kuwait, "are people in need of a country. Kuwait, on the other hand, is a country in need of / people." Dornan believes that Kuwait's labor pool should not be replenished by Palestinians and Yemenis who, he says, "betrayed their Arab brothers by cheering Saddam's invasion." Dornan, whose Orange County constituency has the largest concentration of Vietnamese...
...even go to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize because of all his troubles at home. After troops from the Ministry of Interior slaughtered unarmed Lithuanians last month, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, who won the prize in 1975, said her late husband's name should be stricken from any list of laureates that included Gorbachev...
Just one whiff of mustard gas can sear the lining of a soldier's lungs and cause large, painful blisters to form on his face and body. Only a tiny drop of the nerve gas Tabun will make a stricken combatant twitch and convulse; then his lungs will fill with liquid, and his diaphragm will collapse, causing suffocation. A dose of inhaled anthrax spores will bring on hemorrhaging, then shock and very likely death...