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Last week's conference on chemical weapons was ruffled by the flawed argument that Israel's adversaries need them to counter Israel's nuclear pretensions.
The Soviet scientific community seems to have won a substantial measure of freedom in the past year, but the underlying problems of the Soviet economy cast a cloud over change.
Should a university be devoted solely to teaching? Data from the University of Salford suggest that such an institution would be unlikely to produce good graduates.
