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Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...
...deliberate. He read a transcript of conversations between the pilot of the doomed Airbus and Iranian flight controllers that seemed to indicate that Flight 655 had been proceeding at a normal altitude, speed and flight path. However, on one crucial point -- whether the U.S.S. Vincennes had tried to warn the Airbus -- the transcript was inconclusive. Flight 655 received no warnings, but the pilot may have been too busy chattering to his ground controllers to listen to an emergency channel over which the messages presumably would have been sent...
UNITED NATIONS--Iran said yesterday that the USS Vincennes did not warn an Iranian airliner before shooting it down, but Vice President George Bush responded in the Security Council that the warship fired in self-defense...
...secret anything they "may see or hear in the lives of men which ought not to be spoken abroad." With the exception of AIDS, the American Medical Association has decreed. Meeting in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates approved a resolution asserting that doctors not only may, but must warn the sexual partners of patients infected with the AIDS virus if neither the patient nor public authorities can be persuaded...
...Every case we prevent is a life saved," explained Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, head of the A.M.A.'s AIDS task force. The doctors may also have had in mind a few lawsuits that have been filed seeking damages from physicians who did not warn partners of AIDS victims. Gay rights groups and civil libertarians object that the rule will drive AIDS underground: if victims think doctors will expose them, they will simply avoid seeing physicians...