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...authors hope their description of how easily a nuclear blackmail attempt can be brought off will, as Lapierre says, "alert some heads of state to the dangers of nuclear proliferation." Among the intended targets of the warning is Lapierre's own France, which canceled a nuclear reactor sale to Pakistan only under heavy and persistent U.S. pressure. Said Lapierre last week: "The attitude of the French government influenced us to some degree to write the book...
...week's end active mass resistance appeared to have been suppressed. But Soviet forces in the major cities remained on full alert as rebel leaders threatened a new round of guerrilla attacks. Rumors of an outright reign of terror, with summary executions of suspected Muslim instigators, seemed certain to compound seething popular resentment. Said a Western diplomat: "The Soviets may have succeeded in subduing the population in this first round, but that is not the end of the affair, knowing these hot-blooded Afghans." Added another: "The quagmire Moscow has created for itself is getting deeper and deeper...
...Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...
...road who spot a tornado to try to escape it by driving at right angles to the path of the storm. Ironically, the homes from which nearly half of the auto victims had fled suffered little or no damage. The panel's recommendation: in case of a tornado alert, all motorists, no matter where they are driving, should leave their cars and immediately find shelter...
...authors of the report hope to alert physicians to take hormonal disorders into account when treating impotence, Anthony Lloyd, public relations director of Beth Israel, said last week...