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...protesting, some have become highly emotional about the matter, and a few are trying to sabotage the law. In Birmingham, England's second-largest city (pop. 1,200,000), Professor Hugh McLaren, a strong-willed Scottish Presbyterian, simply refuses to perform abortions except in case of "dire peril" to the woman's life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham women seeking abortions to London...
...immediate economic peril comes from Hong Kong's main foreign friends. Fully 95% of the colony's manufactured items are exported, and half of them are in textiles. Threats of U.S. restrictions on imports have stimulated many manufacturers to diversify into plastics, toys and wigs. Says P. Y. Tang, a textile millionaire: "The disturbances of 1967 did not worry me at all. They didn't hurt us. But quotas on our goods abroad do worry...
...nation's best defense is a prepared citizenry. As it name suggests, the military training that ROTC brought to the college campus was designed to create a vast body of reserve officers. The Regular Army could use these reserve officers to provide additional leadership in times of national peril. Congress assumed that the military academies could provide the officers for the small peacetime army...
Even if Nixon merely diagnoses what ails America, he will have gone a long way, for what the nation needs above all is a fundamental reassessment of its peril as well as its progress. Are the disruptions in U.S. life signs of decay, or are they constructively forcing Americans to do out of necessity what they have refused to do by choice? Can the U.S. go on risking the backlash effects of helping some needy people at the expense of others who refuse to share their gains-or does it sorely need a unifying national challenge, a moral equivalent...
...Adson's way of thinking the question was this: If a gallstone is detected while it is still silent and causing no trouble, should it be removed immediately and prophylactically to protect the patient against possible future illness that might threaten his life? Weighing present risk against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later...