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...past the Deng government has been able to suppress student unrest with a minimum of violence by using the worst threat at its disposal: assignment upon graduation to an uninteresting job in a remote location. But as the last month's events have suggested, some seem willing to risk even a promising future. "Somebody has to do it," says a recent Peking University graduate. "The fate of the country is at stake." The demonstrations, he added, "will eventually be viewed as a boon to history because they are keeping our leaders on their toes, forcing them to speed...
...desirability of testing outside the laboratory during the next decade--the very issue that provided the President with an excuse at Reykjavik for weaseling out of the most sweeping arms limitation proposal ever considered by the two superpowers. But we do wonder why the Reagan Administration would want to suppress information that could answer crucial questions about SDI. We worry when the government limits public knowledge and discussion about decisions that involve not just hundreds of billions of tax dollars, but the very survival of the nation and the planet...
...begin: CBS aired a 90-minute documentary in January 1982 accusing Westmoreland of overseeing "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" during the Vietnam War. The goal of this conspiracy, CBS said, was "to suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy" by reducing intelligence estimates of the number of North Vietnamese soldiers streaming into South Vietnam in the five months leading up to the Tet Offensive. In short, CBS accused Westmoreland & Co. of pulling a treasonous fast one on the American people...
RESPONSIBLE EDITORS, therefore, must suppress their Pavlovian impulses long enough to ask some serious questions: Is the issue they are presented inherently newsworthy? What is the credibility and good faith of the source? Do his or her charges deserve a front-page lead story, or will a blurb on the inside suffice? Does a controversy actually exist, or are they being manipulated into precipitating...
...June by $100 million in federal funds, Government and industry scientists are also scrambling to develop therapies to help rebuild immune systems devastated by the AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines designed to protect healthy people from infection by the virus...