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Stone worked out his ideas during World War II, and later pioneered a na tional accounting system that continues to provide a framework for countries around the world. As assistants of John Maynard Keynes, Stone and 1977 Nobel Laureate James Meade helped prepare a wartime study that organized mountains of data into a profile of the British economy. That herculean task enabled the country's leaders to assess accurately its resources...
...ruling is expected eventually to have a broad impact on other private na tional groups that exclude women, but it is not yet clear which organizations might be affected. The status of such groups as the Boy Scouts and Kiwanis will have to await case-by-case tests. But the Minnesota Jaycees chapters did not have to delay celebrating. Kathy Ebert, former vice president of the Minneapolis chapter, had suffered through the 5½ yearlong legal process as one of the original plaintiffs and happily called a press conference to savor the victory. As for Anne Nelson, a St. Paul...
Olympic officials will be on the lookout for more than 300 drugs that athletes are forbidden to use. And, in what is the toughest action to date against drug users by any athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...
...their tradition of free movement in public places, Americans may be particularly unsuited to coping with a state of siege. Says Peter White of the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta: "A lot of talk about terrorism can make a lot of people see terrorists everywhere." Such na tional fear is exactly what the terrorist seeks. Advises a top State Department official: "I guess it's like living with the Bomb. You know it's out there, but you can't worry about it every...
...Whether or not it is true," he says, "most people you deal with assume that the secret police will find out they were talking to an American journalist, and will not cross certain conversa tional red lines. Speaking critically about President Assad can be dangerous, especially mentioning that he is a member of the power ful minority religious group, the Alawites." By drawing on the in formation of private and understandably wary sources, plus the views of diplomats in Damascus and Palestinian officials with close ties in Syria, Suro was able nonetheless to carpenter together a remarkably candid portrait...