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...other hand, there are obvious differences," Dukakis added, citing his requests for more funds for local aid, higher education, toxic clean-ups and affordable housing...
...ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine of a balanced-budget amendment...
...recently published articles, one team said it has tested a substance--known as dideoxycytidine (ddC)--that appears to be more effective and less toxic than AZT, the drug now used to treat the virus. A second team is conducting experiments on a new version of Soluble t4, a drug that slows the spread of the AIDS virus in the body...
...back in glamour to '50s Hollywood, when Rock Hudson could comfort a dying Jane Wyman in one film, then woo perky Doris Day in another. Thus his pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about a gay couple. But passion is the subject. I was trying to tell a love story...
...important piece of evidence pointing to the participation of West German firms was obtained last August when U.S. intelligence intercepted telephone conversations between Libyan plant operators and officials of Imhausen-Chemie, which has its headquarters in the Black Forest town of Lahr. The calls reportedly took place after a toxic spill resulted from a bungled attempt by the Libyans to manufacture a test quantity of chemical-weapons material at the still uncompleted plant. In a frantic effort to get advice on cleaning up and repairing the plant, Libyan officials spoke at length with Imhausen-Chemie personnel. Those conversations left...