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...basking in his U.N. triumph, the P.L.O. leader last week flew off to Cuba aboard an Algerian Boeing 707 to confer with another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week Rabin had emphasized that Israel...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons...
...companies drilling for oil in Britain's offshore reserve. In addition, a National Enterprise Board will be set up to further nationalization, in whole or in part, of other industries. The board will offer cash-starved businesses the funds that they need to prevent bankruptcy, in exchange for partial government ownership and representation in management...
Europe's soft underbelly may not be far from Communism's grasp. As Americans, we should ready ourselves for the possibility of a partial Communist takeover in Europe. We must either bend our idealism in favor of friendly co-existence or more actively support the anti-Communist forces in Southern Europe. Janice L. Morrison Leawood, Kans...
...study of the student records policies of Massachusetts high schools in 1972, before the Massachusetts open files legislation took effect, showed that over half of the public schools surveyed allowed partial or complete access to student files to police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, social workers and prospective employers, although only 46 per cent allowed students to see their own files. Almost one-third of the schools gave military investigators access to the files...