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Republican difficulty in convincing defeated Republicans to run again has forced the GOP to cool its rhetoric. So after the Democrats picked up 28 seats in the 1982 elections, GOP spokesmen talked of 20 more rematches. These days, Vander Jagt boasts of a possible...
Ruckelshaus' move appeared dramatic, but, in fact, the action was long overdue. Scientists have long believed that the chemical, used primarily as a fumigant after the grain has been harvested, causes cancer and birth defects in laboratory animals, even in minute quantities. Industry spokesmen and EPA officials have often argued that there is no firm evidence linking the chemical to cancer in humans, but longterm studies have shown EDB to be carcinogenic in rats and mice. For the time being, consumers everywhere are the unwitting guinea pigs who will demonstrate the pesticide's effect on human health...
Though both sides are worn down, the fighting drags on. South Africa still refuses to acknowledge, let alone encounter, spokesmen from SWAPO. Even if cease-fire talks could take place, they would not address the trickiest issue in the whole equation: the Cubans. For a breakthrough to occur, says a U.S. diplomat, "there would have to be an awful lot of common sense and logic. So far that has not been the case...
Details of the illness that kept Andropov from delivering his message in person remain as murky as ever. Soviet spokesmen have claimed for weeks that their leader is recuperating from a cold. But Andropov's failure to appear at the all-important Central Committee meeting and, later in the week, at a session of the Supreme Soviet, the country's parliament, belied any such nonsense. Andropov is suffering from a serious illness and, presumably, is slowly recovering. Says a top-ranking U.S. official: "The truth is that no one really knows what has happened to Andropov." That apparently...
Navy officials who sought to deflect the criticism had plausible answers to many of the questions. True, the A-6E and A-7E fighter-bombers used in the attack were subsonic planes designed in the late 1950s, giving rise to charges that outdated equipment was at fault. But Navy spokesmen pointed out that even the Navy's new F/A-18 high-performance fighter-bomber must slow to subsonic speeds to deliver bombs...