Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worries about our foreign policymakers were confirmed in your article "Reflections on the Soviet Crisis" [March 1]. Richard Pipes, the Soviet affairs expert for the National Security Council, argues that the U.S. must raise "the cost of a Soviet expansion with a credibly strong military posture" in order to support moderate Soviet leadership. I hope there are still a few people in Washington who would argue that we would be better off encouraging Soviet moderation with a restrained defense budget and policy...
...puts it, "We've had to play catch-up." The quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even when the information is gilt-edged, Washington is not always eager to listen if the details do not mesh with policy. One U.S. expert praises the intelligence collected by the U.S. Army command (dubbed SOUTHCOM) headquartered in Panama, but he believes its accurate-and pessimistic-assessments of the situation in El Salvador go largely unheeded. Says he: "Policymakers have been getting some very high quality stuff out of SOUTHCOM, and they don't like...
...today the average adult consumes two to 2½ teaspoons a day, more than 20 times what the body needs. An estimated 35 million people suffer from hypertension, 60 million if mild cases are included. Nearly half of the population over 65 years old is affected. Says Boston Hypertension Expert Dr. Lot Page, chief of medicine at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital: "The link between salt and hypertension is as firm as the link between high cholesterol and heart disease...
...salt is bad, and it certainly is for many people, why do they like it so much? The answer, suggests University of Minnesota Hypertension Expert Louis Tobian, is that in prehistoric times, man's taste for salt may have been an advantage. He says: "In a world of salt-poor plants, there was no chance of his getting too much." But the desire for salt may have propelled him to find a valuable nutrient...
...performers were concerned. Spewing charts and aerial photos enlarged to show Soviet license plates on Nicaraguan tanks, the spy bureau smugly assured reporters that the Sandinistas are arming themselves and receiving substantial aid from Moscow and Havana. John T. Hughes, the very same Government intelligence expert who first translated specks on the Cuban terrain as Soviet missiles in 1962, returned to the stage, pointer in hand. The eyeball-to-eyeball allusions were plentiful, though somehow outdated Russian T-55s parked near Managua seem less of a direct threat to U.S. interests than did medium-range missiles off the coast...