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...Perhaps prompted by the complaints and uncertainty, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. William Stewart, has taken a cautious position on the spray. In a letter to state and local health authorities, he warned that Mace's prolonged irritant ability "clearly increases the possibility of more than transient effects to the exposed individuals unless treatment is prompt." He added that further study would be necessary "to determine possible chronic effects." A spokesman...
...avert those twin perils, said the globally respected central banker, the U.S. must cut its budget deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1 from a prospective $20 billion to less than $8 billion. Achieving such a reduction would require not only prompt enactment of the Administration-backed 10% income-tax surcharge but budget cuts at least as large as anything Congress has proposed. Moreover, said Martin, he has already told President Johnson that unless the U.S. slashes its balance of payments deficit, that problem will inexorably lead to a world devaluation of currencies. "This would...
...United Nations, arguing that a "monument to all mankind" is at stake. After a searching survey, UNESCO's Bernard Groslier, conservator of Angkor Wat, and Dutch Hydrologist Caesar Voute have now agreed, and next month will recommend a $3,000,000, seven-year restoration program. Indonesians see prompt UNESCO aid as their only hope. "The balance now is precarious," warns one Indonesian archaeologist. "The walls of Borobudur could fall down today, and they could fall down in 20 years. We can't predict...
...coalition with the Front. There are other variations on the theme. But any settlement that promises to yield any satisfaction to both sides also entails concessions by both sides. The Communists might have to forgo their goal of an immediate N.L.F. takeover of the South coupled with a prompt and total end of U.S. involvement in the country's future. For its part, the U.S. would have to face up to the possibility of a new alignment in Southeast Asia in which the trend would be toward neutralization. In this framework, South Viet Nam might eventually come under...
...last time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...