Word: prompt
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...motion that could modify 242 to recognize the Palestinians' right to their own state. While the U.S. is prepared to honor its promise to Israel and veto such a motion, Washington wants the kind of compromise resolution that Strauss outlined to Begin. In theory this might prompt P.L.O. acceptance of 242 and remove the main obstacle to open U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, thus leading to Palestinian participation in the autonomy talks...
Muzorewa's hopes of winning prompt international recognition received a setback last week: sources close to Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that she has modified her earlier view that Britain should quickly lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia. During a brief visit to Australia, Thatcher said that she expected the House of Commons would simply not renew the sanctions when they expire in November. She added: "The question of recognition is a slightly wider problem and could take just a little longer...
...October 1952, to simulate actual combat conditions, the Pentagon was asking to raise the permissible level of ionizing radiation that soldiers could receive from the AEC limit of 3.9 roentgens over 13 weeks to 3 roentgens of "prompt whole-body nuclear radiation"-that is, the exposure during the explosion-"plus an additional 3 roentgens in post-detonation maneuvering." Again the AEC agreed...
Each year some 106,000 U.S. women learn that they have breast cancer. Thanks to improved public awareness, most of them make this discovery while the cancer is still confined to the breast. Following prompt treatment, usually a mastectomy, chances of survival are good: 85% of the women are alive five years later. But for too many women, the cancer is discovered after it has spread to the lymph nodes. By then the odds for survival are nowhere near as high. Even with chemotherapy the cancer often recurs...
When The Confessions of Nat Turner was published twelve years ago, William Styron was pilloried by some blacks and liberals. How, their attack ran, dare a white Southerner appropriate the mind and soul of a black slave? Sophie's Choice, Styron's first novel since then, may prompt a similar ambush. What business has an American Wasp writing about the European, chiefly Jewish, victims of the Holocaust? If taken seriously, such questions are dangerous. Areas of the imagination can be fenced off for certain groups alone only at everyone's peril. The question is not whether Styron...