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...view of the immense distance that China has traveled in its first quarter-century under Communist rule, nobody could dismiss out of hand its chances of achieving Chou's goal. Nonetheless, China also has a way of lurching unpredictably from stability to turbulence and back again (see box page 29). Despite the present hopeful signs, few Sinologists are willing to bet their reputations on a really long interlude of tranquillity...
Prosecution testimony continued yesterday as Judge James P. McGuire declined to rule on a defense motion to dismiss the case until he has read recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings concerning the issue...
...Soviet action also heightened worldwide speculation that yet another victim may be the man who, on the Soviet side, initiated, nurtured and negotiated the trade accord in the first place: Leonid Brezhnev. Top government officials in Washington and in European capitals continued to dismiss rumors of an impending Kremlin shake-up as fanciful. But persistent reports of the 68-year-old Brezhnev's ill health, coupled with the defeat of his trade policy, lent a bit more credence to conjectures that he may be ousted. And Sovietologists noted that even though Brezhnev was seen riding in his Zil limousine...
...Failures. Knowledgeable Soviet-affairs experts in Washington and European capitals prudently dismiss the swirling speculation that Brezhnev's uncertain health presages his imminent retirement or a stage-managed ouster by his Kremlin competitors. Unless it is proved that Brezhnev is mortally ill, they believe that he will remain in office at least until the 1976 Communist Party Congress when, as one British foreign office expert put it, he might choose to bow out "in a spasm of glory...
Laragh's finding also cleared up another of the mysteries surrounding hypertension. Many hypertensives dismiss the seriousness of their conditions by citing the case of a relative who lived to be 80 despite a blood pressure that nearly popped the mercury out of the doctor's sphygmomanometer. Laragh's work indicates that these exceptions, which seemingly violate the rule that high blood pressure is dangerous, were probably low-renin hypertensives. Patients with this condition are less likely to suffer strokes and heart attacks than high-renin types. But they do not escape hypertension's hazards...