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Persuasive Proof. Now a group of British researchers have come up with a partial answer. In a series of papers published recently in the scientific journal Nature, they report that aspirin and its close pharmaceutical relatives tend to halt the production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
...Dienbienphu." McNamara's disenchantment grew; by May 1967 he was advocating a political settlement in Viet Nam that would include non-Communist members of the National Liberation Front. A month after McNamara's resignation as Defense Secretary, President Johnson withdrew from the presidential race and ordered a partial bombing halt along the lines that McNamara had suggested earlier. TET AFTERMATH. In a secret report to President Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wheeler presented a more pessimistic assessment of the effects of the 1968 Tet offensive than officials in Washington and Saigon had made available...
...only the latest paradox in the career of Robert McNamara that he turns out to be a chief victim of the Viet Nam study that he initiated. In the documents that have been revealed to date-a partial picture, to be sure -the judgment of the once infallible Defense Secretary seems badly flawed. In the early 1960s, few other Government officials had quite his sense of assurance that escalation would pay off, that a steady application of American pressure and resources would turn the tide...
...Nixon-Sato agreement also commits Japan to partial defense responsibility for Asia, with U.S. nuclear power serving as "the spear" and Japanese manpower as "the shield," in the words of Self-Defense Agency Director Yasuhiro Nakasone. Though the Japanese constitution specifically prohibits the country from developing offensive capabilities, Japan has been steadily building up the top nonnuclear military force in Asia, under pressure from the U.S. By 1975, it is scheduled to have a 286,000-man army and an air force with 900 modern warplanes...
...weeks X-raying Enrique and subjecting him to a battery of tissue and blood tests in order to determine the deformity's extent. X-ray examinations showed that the incomplete twin consisted of a second pelvis fused to the front of Enrique's own pelvis, plus a partial extra bladder. The pictures also disclosed that the growth was not connected to Enrique's spine or nervous system; indeed, Enrique had never been known to move or show feeling in the appendage, though it made up one-quarter of his weight. But doctors still...