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...wasn't long ago that Dole was considered the conservative's conservative. But compared with Gramm, Dole is a flaming moderate. After World War II, he spent several years in and out of Army hospitals, recovering from combat wounds, and he believes ``government does a lot of good things.'' So his grudging enthusiasm for Newt Gingrich's anti-Washington ``Contract with America'' is hardly surprising. As for the contract's insistence that the budget can be balanced in five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent...
Several new studies were released indicating that giving HIV-positive patients a combination of powerful drugs may be the best way to combat AIDS. The double wallop of AZT and an experimental new drug, 3tc, effectively put off the appearance of drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus in infected individuals by as much as one year (patients treated with AZT alone encounter resistance within a few months). Together the drugs also kept the extent of the infection in check while allowing the body to boost its complement of virus-fighting immune cells. More studies are needed to determine whether...
FIFTY YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II, SOMETHING LIKE BLITZKRIEG returned to Nijmegen last week. Dutch soldiers swarmed around the city while low-flying helicopters thundered overhead. Sirens pierced the air as police cars escorted emergency crews and equipment into town. The scenes reflected the kind of combat the Dutch know best: struggling with the elements. This time, in a country wrested largely from the sea, nature's attack arrived by way of the less fortified back door. At Nijmegen's Jan Massink sports center, a sports club where 350 evacuees had bedded down on the gymnasium floor, factory worker...
...able to remove the material." In fact, most of them are involved in stable, monogamous relationships. They do not engage in bondage, bestiality, or any other nonstandard sexual practice. None of them has ever employed a prostitute, though some of them have rented adult movies and visited the Combat Zone--activities which the article places on the same level as prostitution...
...expected later this week. If confirmed by the Senate, Carns would be the first military officer to run the agency since Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner held the post during the Carter Administration. TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller says the choice of Carns--a Harvard MBA, veteran of 200 combat missions in Vietnam and the Air Force's vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation as "a low-key, effective manager, a very quick study and a take-charge kind of guy" already sounds good to congressional leaders...