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...election-year posturing and exploding tempers. Only this time the shouting on Capitol Hill was not merely for effect. The Administration's urgent requests for emergency military aid to the government of El Salvador and for the contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista regime were clearly in peril...
...Super Tuesday, March 13: if Mondale sweeps the three Southern primaries that day, in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, th race is essentially over. Mondale plans to run at full tilt in every contest. "The person who skips primaries," says his campaign chairman, James Johnson, "does so at his own peril...
...changes that will challenge the status quo. Explains a Soviet analyst: "Whatever its deficiencies, central planning served us well when we had to mobilize the energies of the population in World War II. Is this really the time to start trying experiments when the nation is again in peril? This is what the military will be asking...
...major peril in transplanting mismatched bone marrow has always been a rejection problem called graft-vs.-host disease. Even with treated marrow, there is some risk. According to Dr. Richard O'Reilly of Sloan Kettering, the disease is "the exact opposite of what we talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
...comic havoc of Noises Off means peril at every step for the actors. Says Garber, who somersaults down a flight of stairs into a pratfall every night: "I still say a little prayer each time I begin...