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...years before moving to Beirut. Sure enough, shortly after 10 p.m. last Monday his captors dropped off Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed under Syrian guard, he was quickly taken to Damascus and turned over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian. "The treatment was better than I expected," said Singh, a diabetic who was examined twice a week by a doctor during his captivity. "But there is no substitute for freedom in this world...
...There is no overwhelmingly compelling reason at this moment to endorse mandatory widespread population screening," she said, "because the answer to the question, `What is the purpose of the test, and what would you do with the results?' is unclear. There is no treatment. There is no way to ensure that people will change their behavior and not spread the disease...
Steroids provide legitimate treatment for certain hormonal and blood disorders, among others, but they have also been put to other ends for decades. Developed in the 1930s, they had their first known non-medicinal use not long after -- by Nazi doctors who gave them to soldiers in the hope of enhancing their aggressiveness in battle. After World War II, Soviet sports officials reportedly noted the Nazis' use, and in the 1950s began giving steroids to athletes. U.S. doctors found out about this and introduced them to American athletes, initiating a kind of chemical cold...
...Hague. The U.S. could offer to speed up those proceedings without making an outright dollars-for-hostages offer that would smack of ransom. Washington could also insist on release of the hostages as a precondition for normalizing diplomatic relations with Iran and easing its opposition to favorable treatment of Iran by bodies such as the International Monetary Fund...
This silly, TV-movie treatment extends to just about everything in the movie. The movie never deals intelligently with the guilt and political doubts of the Popes. Lumet trots out a bad guy revolutionary from their past to show that the Popes are nice guys, but aside from that brief scene, it doesn't really matter why they are underground except that it provides the movie with its premise...