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...also about David White. Hired after a stint at the paper's Paris bureau as an office boy to Tom Wicker, White eventually filled The Times' shipping reporter slot, covering the nation's largest harbor. With the onset in 1977 of the "New" New York Times--"The Living Section," a jogging column and other concessions to profitable pop journalism practiced by other papers but sternly resisted by The Times----White's editors decided that shipping wasn't sexy, abolished the beat, and shunted him off to the hinterlands of the suburban Westchester edition. Disillusioned, White quit to become a free...
...Aqaba's harbor is bristling with vessels ready to off-load war supplies. They are lined up like runners crowded together waiting to begin a cross-country race." The Soviets are apparently providing Iraq with spare parts, food and ammunition diverted from South Yemen and Ethiopia. U.S. intelligence sources, however, were satisfied that so far there have been no Soviet shipments of lethal heavy weaponry ?tanks, missiles and the like?to Iraq...
...offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...
...being a noncombatant in a Middle East conflict. But Israeli officials expressed concern over the Syrian-Soviet treaty, lest it open the door for the stationing of Soviet troops in Syria. The new flirtation between Jordan and Iraq, not to mention the presence of Soviet supply ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression...
...three, working independently, have been studying a group of genes that are intimately linked to the body's immune response. Snell, 76, of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., laid the groundwork with studies using mice. Attempting to transplant first tumor cells and then normal tissue, he discovered that the success of the operations depended on protein molecules on the surface of cells. These proteins, called antigens, have characteristic shapes and structures, but combinations differ from individual to individual. Snell found that the more antigens the subjects had in common, the more likely was the graft to take...