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Despite the end result, Harvard’s most experienced player had much to be proud of, returning to Cambridge with the kind of valuable match experience that only the very top-level tournaments provide...
CHARGED. DONALD KEYSER, 61, former top-level State Department official; with concealing from his superiors that he took a four-day trip to Taiwan last September, in violation of security protocol; in Alexandria, Va. He admitted to meeting with a Taiwanese intelligence officer but said he had flown to Taipei only "for sightseeing purposes...
...impeccable judgment and intimate knowledge of the intelligence world, was arrested by federal agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval. But the intelligence blunder?exposing himself to blackmail by making the secret trip?was even worse. "Even if he pulled [the trip] off," says one shocked former colleague, "he would then be totally in Taiwan's pocket because they could threaten to go public with it at any time...
...just a Chinese phenomenon. Aided by exhausting, full-time training programs, the latest in technology and, on occasion, banned substances, performances in virtually every sport have improved by literal leaps and bounds over the past quarter-century. Hallowed records such as Bob Beamon's long jump have fallen as top-level athletes train so single-mindedly that the idea of Roger Bannister's breaking the four-minute mile in 1954 as a diversion from his medical studies seems almost absurdly quaint...
...smallpox vaccinations. But that may not last. A senior Thompson adviser, Donald Henderson--who ran the World Health Organization program that eradicated smallpox worldwide in the 1970s--told TIME last week that civilian inoculations are no longer necessary. "We don't need to vaccinate the first responders," he said. Top-level dissent could be the beginning of the end for the controversial program...