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...weakened heart cannot bear the added burden of surgical shock. To ease the load on ailing hearts, doctors have for several years used implantable balloon pumps (TIME, Aug. 23, 1971) and other devices that are designed to be removed surgically after recovery. A system developed at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center carries this heart-assist technology a significant step forward. Their pump not only provides a postoperative boost but can be connected again without major surgery if the patient suffers a relapse...
Like armed commuters, Israeli patrols struck the Arqub region of southern Lebanon for six successive nights last week. They had been stirred up by Palestinian guerrillas who had ambushed an Israeli halftrack, which had been patrolling the frontier hoping to knock out fedayeen before they could mount raids on Israeli settlements. The incident eventually provoked some of the heaviest fighting on the border in two years. In the village of Kfar Chouba, on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, fedayeen fought the Israelis stubbornly. During the past week, four fedayeen were killed and 12 wounded; the Israelis suffered 15 wounded...
Wellesley and Mount Holyoke have both been forced to drop from the league until more funding becomes available, but Tufts, a school which formerly had no team at all, is reputed to have a squad led by three top-flight racers. Boston University's squad is also unusally strong, and University of Massachusetts, the team that chased the 'Cliffe down to the wire last year, is expected to be as strong as ever...
...Japan's oil troubles, a huge storage tank ruptured last month at the Mizushima industrial complex in the city of Kurashiki. About 50,000 bbl. of oil poured into the Inland Sea-a national park area as beloved as Mount Fuji-and tarred 100 miles of scenic coastline. Beyond the aesthetic damage, which has caused a national outcry, the spill has wreaked havoc with the local fishing and edible seaweed industries; losses are estimated at $40 million...
...Food for Peace program, in which Washington bought food and then sold it to South Vietnamese importers, donating 80 per cent of the proceeds to Saigon's army, navy and air force--took the place of more immediately visible forms of American intervention. And Saigon troops continued to mount attacks on the majority of South Vietnam controlled by the PRG--so that the first year of "peace," by the Saigon government's figures, resulted in about 50,000 deaths and thousands more refugees...