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...focus of the center's research is understanding the development of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), a condition that can lead to strokes and heart attacks. Director Chazov and his team of scientists have developed several compounds to dissolve potentially fatal blood clots. One such compound is a more effective version of streptokinase, a drug increasingly used in the West to dissolve blood clots...
Forget about finding out who drove the truck into the U.S. Marine compound. Forget about finding out who provided the driver. More important, discover where the munitions were manufactured and who sold them. The real international terrorists are those who supply arms to fanatics...
...coast of Lebanon last week. Israel, meanwhile, announced a mobilization drill of its reservists; the last time a public call to duty occurred was in 1978. Both countries described their actions as routine, but the activity fed speculation about possible retaliation for the suicidal attacks against the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut* and an Israeli military base in Tyre. In response, Syrian President Hafez Assad placed his country's armed forces on alert too, including the calling up of an estimated 100,000 reservists. Washington and Jerusalem both publicly assured Assad that they had no intention of attacking Syria...
...Marines at the airport. The biggest concern: rocket launchers manned by pro-Iranian Lebanese had been trucked into the hills above Beirut and could be capable of hitting Marine positions. According to the reports, the batteries were brought in about a month ago, before the bombing of the Marine compound. Washington has been conferring with the Lebanese government about whether to remove the launchers through negotiation or through a pre-emptive strike, but one Lebanese official left no doubt about the result. Said he: "They have to come...
Shortly after the bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut, TIME has learned, intelligence agencies in the area picked up ominous indications that further terrorist attacks were planned, not only against the U.S. compound but against a much bigger target: the ships of the Sixth Fleet, which have been keeping watch off the Lebanese coast. The telltale signs included Syrian naval activity, notably around the military ports of Tartus and Latakia, as well as the movement of SS-21 and SA-5 surface-to-air missiles within Syria itself. It was unclear exactly what the Syrians were up to. Were they...