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...Sandinista army, by contrast, is hell-bent on quashing the contras. Washington continues to warn that the Sandinistas may escalate the air war by introducing Soviet-built MiG jet fighters to the region, a circumstance that could provoke direct U.S. military action. U.S. intelligence reports show that about two dozen Nicaraguan pilots are currently receiving flight training in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...
From 1971 to 1973, Farnsworth served as vicechairman of the National Commission on Marijuanaand Drug Abuse. He was one of the first medicalauthorities to warn of the permanent mind-alteringeffects of such drugs...
...visit to Amsterdam, where such a program exists. A needle-exchange program would necessarily have to start small. Only about 15% of the state's estimated 60,000 addicts are in registered treatment programs or in touch with public-health street workers, who periodically enter "shooting galleries" to warn users of the dangers of AIDS. An initial research study would be inexpensive, said Rutledge, and could be paid for out of the state health department's existing budget...
...World War II was winding down, Harriman was one of the first to warn of the Soviet threat to the U.S. After F.D.R.'s death in 1945, Harriman, then Ambassador to Moscow, hurried home to alert President Truman to what he called the "barbarian invasion of Europe." But like others from Wall Street who formed the core of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets...
...simply look into a worker's computer dossier and immediately see, for instance, an exact record of how many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer the new evaluative technique because they see it as a matter-of-fact measurement of their output as opposed to a boss's personal opinion. Says R. Douglas MacIntyre, a senior vice president...