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...with second-degree murder; ROTC headquarters assigned an inspector-general to investigate the incident; St. John's suspended the fraternity pending the outcome of a university inquiry. Even before their full-scale investigations began, both the ROTC and St. John's disputed the police version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that hazing was forbidden by the university...
...three Senate elections in the past: jobs, schools, increased Social Security. But during his nearly 18 years in Washington, Democrat Vance Hartke had acquired a well-deserved reputation as a junketeering, always-on-the-make politician. In a race in which integrity was the hot issue, that image was fatal. Hartke, 57, was swamped by Richard Lugar, 44, who served two successful terms as mayor of Indianapolis...
Jimmy Carter's first-debate nervousness had vanished. Gerald Ford's second-debate foot-in-mouth was cured. Both candidates were more poised, presidential and restrained than before-in fact, at times they sounded downright angelic. Both avoided the kind of fatal gaffe that inspires a politician's nightmares. The verbal slips were slight. Old Football Player Ford began to predict improved economic prospects for "the fifth quarter" and quickly checked himself. Carter, often accused of changing his mind, said he would select Supreme Court Justices "who would most accurately reflect my own basic political philosophy...
...Marburg virus disease, an extremely rare ailment first spotted in 1967 among lab workers in Marburg, West Germany, handling organs of African green monkeys. Seven of more than two dozen technicians infected died of the disease. In 1975 there were three more cases in South Africa, one of them fatal...
Gajdusek, 53, of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., found the cause of a puzzling fatal degenerative brain disease called kuru, which long plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...