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...Middle East; it has already voted to dispatch 20,000 soldiers and civilians from various countries to police a prospective settlement in Cambodia. For some time, though, its primary tool to enforce its decisions will probably continue to be the embargo. Not long ago, such economic sanctions were considered useless. But that thinking is changing. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, formerly the loudest voice in the sanctions-never-succeed school, stated last week, "It is just becoming obvious that some of them are beginning to work...
Last week the hope came crashing to the ground. After studying the cases, federal investigators declared the treatment useless and recommended against further human experimentation. They attributed one patient's remarkable recovery to misdiagnosis: he did not have Kaposi's sarcoma to begin with. Dr. Alonso called the report "absurd," and plans to continue his study, possibly in Latin America or Europe...
...really," I say. Looks like this one's hooked on the big H. It'll be useless to resist...
...Washington bureau chief: "The Pentagon doesn't want this thing to work. If they can send in tanks, planes, ships and thousands of troops, they can send in 11 reporters and photographers at the start of an operation." Washington Post managing editor Leonard Downie Jr. calls the pool "absolutely useless." He believes restraints on the press were created in an attempt to emulate the British government's success at controlling the press during the Falklands...
That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...