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...composite contingency plan assumes a cutoff in oil to the West because of another Middle East war, an Arab oil embargo and a White House command to the U.S. military to lift the embargo. At this order, two massive U.S. strike groups would get under way. One would move through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf. It would include carriers whose jets would secure air control, and ships carrying at least a division of Marines (15,000 men). The second force would include two brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division...
...policy works as Ford hopes, sales would revive, unemployment would moderate and the nation would be much better able to withstand another cutoff of foreign oil, since Americans would be compelled by higher prices to reduce their prodigious waste of energy. But if the program fails, the consequences could be dire indeed. The $16 billion in rebates and tax credits might be too weak to jolt the economy out of its alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices...
...increased military aid for embattled South Viet Nam, a request that will be met in Congress with hot resistance or icy indifference. But Ford's persuasive powers with the legislative branch may prove useful. By buttonholing senior Senators last month, he was able to persuade them to extend the cutoff date for military aid to Turkey...
Usually renin production ceases when blood pressure reaches the proper level. In this case, the cutoff mechanism had failed. The man's renin was triggering the production of excess aldosterone, which in turn was increasing the body's tendency to retain salt. The process caused fatally high blood pressure...
...shared the Nobel Prize for helping to decipher the structure of the genetic material DNA. Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff date seems significant; it suggests to some researchers that news of last spring's fake research scandal at Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute (TIME, April 29) may have given pause to anyone tampering with the Harvard experiments...