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...case for disarmament can be explained simply and persuasively by a comparison, Meyer said. The U.S. and Russia are like two Western ranchers, he remarked, who should find it in their own best interest to submit to a partial rule of law although still trying to out-smart each other...
...Partial Reward. In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward went before the OAS Sanctions Committee. Despite reservations expressed in an OAS Human Rights Commission report (e.g., "the serious problem that has arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said Woodward, democracy was looking up in Trujilloland. "A vigorous political opposition acts openly, opposition newspapers circulate, key figures closely associated with the former regime have departed." The U.S. therefore recommended, he said, that sanctions prohibiting the export of petroleum products and trucks to the Dominican Republic be lifted. Remaining economic...
Stuart also sees his car as a partial answer to the smog problem, since it burns no fuel, hence has no exhaust. "Some day," observes Stuart, "unless we turn off the fumes, we may be legislated into using nonexhaust transportation. It's better to make a start...
Virus particles have been found in some human cancers, but this does not prove that they caused the disease. Some tumor viruses invade an animal, yet they disappear for months or years, and then belatedly cause cancer. The hows and whys of this latent period are unknown. One partial explanation may lie in the ability of new "provirus" particles to remain undetected in cells, doing no evident damage until they are stimulated by chemicals or X rays. The important thing is that these nucleic-acid molecules can be infective by themselves, with no assist from the protein that normally accompanies...
...they seek sanctuary. But nature suggests that there is a way. If it takes days or weeks for protective antibodies to develop, why does not the pullulating virus overwhelm all the victim's susceptible cells in the meantime? London's Dr. Alick Isaacs last year found a partial answer. Virus-infected cells produce a substance that Isaacs calls interferon, which spreads to neighboring, uninfected cells. With their interferon guard up, these cells are unusually resistant to viral invasion...