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Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...
...travel from a cheese-steak on a countertop to one of those jelly-ball things in our skulls that allow us to detect such waves. The amount of time is exactly half the amount allotted to you before fire and venom spit horrifically from the Tommy's counterman in vehement objection to your negligence in retrieving your "food...
...they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn't get much of a response," Byrd reported. In fact, he got a vehement one: the President not only insisted on another increase in military spending and repeated his fervent opposition to any kind of tax increase, but called Byrd's arguments for a cut in defense outlays a "bunch of crap." In Wright's view, Reagan "was not familiar with the agenda...
...DEAL COULD BECOME a formidable victory for Iran if the nation achieves a decisive breakthrough in their next offensive against Iraq--probably in February to coincide with the Revolution's anniversary. For the time being, Khomeini can afford to return to his vehement anti-Americanism, and even denounce unnamed Iranian officials for harboring pro-Satanic tendencies...
...point everyone who knows Shultz is in agreement: whatever and whenever he discovered about the arms transfers, the information dismayed him -- for good reason. Shultz has been the most vehement promoter of the Administration's official no-deals-with-terrorists policy. He has been in charge of Operation Staunch, an Administration effort to persuade both friends and adversaries not to sell arms to Iran. He has pushed that effort with deep personal conviction, going so far as to urge Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze during their frequent meetings to try to reduce arms sales to Iran by countries allied...