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...interest. In New York City last week, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir attacked the Saudis as a "major obstacle" to peace. Said he: "Saudi extremism against the peace process stems from a fanatic hatred of Jews and Israel." His diatribe may reflect worries in Jerusalem that the Administration's hitherto benign attitude toward Israel is changing for the worse. TIME has learned that in two recent cables to his government, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, expressed concern that a proposed memorandum on U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation, due to be signed next month, omits a plan to store...
...left, as was once thought, proved clearly superior in some respects, including the capacity for intuitive thinking, interpreting auditory impressions and comprehending spatial relationships. Said the Nobel Committee of Sperry's achievements: "He has provided us with an insight into the inner world of the brain which hitherto had been almost completely hidden from...
...first glance, Peking's nine-point proposal seemed to offer solutions to all the hitherto irreconcilable differences between the two regimes, both of which claim to be the legitimate government of China. If Taiwan would agree to be politically integrated with the Communist mainland, Peking vowed that it would not interfere in local Taiwanese affairs, and island residents would be permitted to travel freely on the mainland. Reiterating a remarkable concession that has already become part of the Communists' courtship of Taiwan, Peking promised that the island could keep its own armed forces and maintain its present democratic...
...syndrome, somewhat similar to viral pneumonia, was at first dismissed by Spanish health authorities as a simple outbreak of "atypical" pneumonia. But Dr. Antonio Muro-Fernandez, director of Spain's National Center for Infectious Diseases, challenged that diagnosis. He thought people were dying from a hitherto unknown disease, not caused by virus-like organisms, and he was alarmed that the killer ailment would soon sweep the country. For his pains, Muro-Fernandez was suspended from duty, allegedly because he was suffering from "stress and exhaustion...
Many of the bones required a high order of scientific sleuthing. In 1978 one of Webb's students, Diderot Gicca, came up with a jawbone that totally baffled the team. Careful study showed it to be part of a hitherto unknown giant ancestor of the raccoon. Students also found a mastodon, an ancestral kin of the elephant, with two pairs of tusks, the lower ones resembling shovels. For a time, they were also puzzled by what seemed an unusually large (nearly 3 ft.) metacarpal bone. It belonged to a creature called Aepycamelus major, the giraffe camel. No less surprising...