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Many of the experiments using dogs aim to measure the effects of various drugs on high blood pressure. (Presumably such drugs are then to be applied to humans, a dubious step to say the least.) Using intrusive surgery, inflatable cuffs are placed near the heart, and these cuffs may be blown up to restrict blood flow and raise blood pressure. In some cases this causes heart attacks. The dogs live for weeks in cages. Yet one of the leading lights in this field, Dr. Clifford Barger, has suggested that the dogs actually enjoy the experimental sessions. Is it not more...
Back in Washington, the Justice Department's Division of Land and Natural Resources revealed plans to sue some of the more than 200 companies responsible for dumping hazardous wastes from 1955 to 1972 at the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif. The aim: to recover cleanup costs, now calculated to run as high as $40 million...
...week's biggest uncertainty centered on Arafat's travels. After visiting Morocco, the P.L.O. leader was expected in Amman on March 27 to meet with Hussein. But instead Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia and then to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Arafat's aim was to shore up Arab support before making any commitment to King Hussein. Arafat did not see Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is strongly opposed to Jordanian participation in peace talks, but he did deliver a fiery speech to a large throng of supporters in Damascus. The next day Arafat arrived...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib is to break the deadlock in the negotiations for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, he must convince the Israelis that their demand to keep a residual military presence in the country is unnecessary. With that aim in mind, Washington has undertaken a $251 million crash program to rebuild the regular Lebanese army, which is in a state of serious disrepair after eight years of civil war and sectarian strife. Last week 32 U.S.-made M48 tanks were hoisted off a ship in Beirut for delivery to the Lebanese army. Twenty-eight Green Berets from...
Colonel Arthur T. Fintel, chief of the U.S. military assistance program, says that the first goal of the joint U.S.-Lebanese effort was to bring four 4,000-man brigades up to 70% of fighting strength. In terms of size and equipment, that aim has already been accomplished. The longer-term goal is to train seven brigades for a total of 30,000 men. An intensive recruitment program has surpassed expectations, partly because enlisted men get higher pay than draftees...