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...virus that appeared to play a role in the disease. The following spring, Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he had conclusively identified the AIDS virus and produced it in large quantities. At a press conference that many scientists felt undercut the important contribution of the French, Heckler hailed Gallo's achievement: "Today we add another miracle to the long honor roll of American medicine and science." Her fulsome statement added fuel to a smoldering rivalry over who deserves credit for the discovery...
...that has me denigrating the President as a "simpleminded conservative." TIME's quote is a composite, pieced together from answers to different questions. I never said anything like the quote attributed to me. Neither was I "fuming" when I explained to your reporter that I thought Budget Director Stockman undercut his own budgets by taking extreme positions that lacked credibility in the Congress and by letting it be known privately that he thought tax increases were the answer to the deficit. Congress responded by letting budget cuts languish while waiting for the Administration to propose another tax increase. Since...
...captivity. Prompted by questions from two Soviet correspondents, Yurchenko compared his kidnaping to "state-sponsored terrorism" and accused the U.S. of "hypocrisy" for preaching about human rights yet violating his. As farfetched as his tale was, it provides the Soviets with a handy riposte at home and abroad to undercut Reagan when he brings up Soviet human rights violations at the Geneva summit. "What lawlessness!" commented Pravda after running Yurchenko's account. "And it takes place in a country whose leaders trumpet all over the world about 'democracy' and 'liberties,' who seek to teach everybody how one should observe human...
Like the Ewing and Barnes families on Dallas, the quarrelsome clan that is the OPEC cartel serves as a comforting reminder that the rich have troubles too. OPEC's bench-mark oil price of $28 per bbl. has lately been undercut by non-OPEC producers like Mexico, which last week slashed prices on its best light crude by $1.25 per bbl., to an average of $26.50. Several OPEC members have been cheating on the cartel's production quotas, thus contributing to an oil glut and sliding prices on the world market...
Most Saudis are not unhappy to see the end of the boom times. They say they are relieved that the period of runaway economic expansion is over. Nonetheless, even Saudi Arabia's new, leaner budget will be in trouble if oil sales do not go up. The Saudis could undercut OPEC's official prices and sell oil at market rates, just as others in OPEC already do. They are not likely to do that. The Saudis are trying to keep the organization together against the day, perhaps late in the 1980s, when demand may rise and the world may need...