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...essential role in building cell membranes and sex hormones as well as aiding digestion. Problems begin when the body is saddled with an excess of LDL, which normally carries some 60% to 80% of the blood's total cholesterol. This excess can trigger the formation of plaque on the interior walls of the coronary arteries, a condition called atherosclerosis. In time, this hardened, sludge-filled growth narrows the artery and allows a clot to form, severely blocking the blood flow. The result: a heart attack...
...Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader Khachik Stamboltsyan abandoned a 21-day-old hunger strike to exploit Gorbachev's democratization campaign and run for the regional parliament against the republic's sitting minister of the interior. He polled nearly three times as many votes as his opponents, but was disqualified on a technicality...
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management. Known by critics as the Assistant Secretary for Oil, this official will help decide whether to continue such controversial Reagan policies as the sale of wilderness areas and extension of oil-drilling rights off the coasts and Alaska's North Slope, and whether to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development...
Leshchinsky's commentary seemed to reflect deepening Soviet pessimism about Najibullah's survival amid the outcome of the nine-year struggle against mujahedin insurgents. In Kabul the Kremlin appeared to be laying the groundwork for a negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General...
...second time in a row, Peterson was named the recipient of the Joseph E. Wolf Award, given to the team's outstanding interior lineman. Peterson recorded a Harvard-record 11 sacks this year...