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...faction, led by Saudi Arabia, includes neighboring Persian Gulf producers like the United Arab Emirates, and does not want to lower its production further to let the other side raise its output. The opposing faction, which includes Iran, Nigeria and Indonesia, desperately needs income and is eager to pump every drop of oil that it can sell, even if that sends prices plummeting. Iran, which has become the spokesman for this group, is spurred by the need to finance its two-year-old war of attrition with Iraq. It is now producing some 3.2 million bbl. daily, nearly three times...
Most of OPEC's muscle comes from Saudi Arabia, which accounts for roughly one-third of the group's output. Although the Saudis are now producing only about three-fourths of their March quota of 7 million bbl., analysts expect Riyadh to maintain that level, rather than pump more, in order to maintain prices. Predicts Henry Schuler of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington: "The Saudis will take up the slack. I think they are compelled to hold prices and accept a reduction of market share...
...worries last week, and that was a welcome change. The air-powered artificial heart permanently implanted in place of his own failing organ continued to work perfectly, just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson, a vice president of the University of Utah Medical Center...
...this regard it was instructive to compare the newspaper diagrams of Clark's new heart with Brooks' operation. The pump looked moderately interesting, as did the hookup of the prosthesis to the atria, but the picture held none of the force of the scene in the Texas prison. One sketch showed clearly, in cartoon style, where Brooks' girlfriend was standing, the position of the chaplains, the precise spot where the catheters entered the arms. Of course, the dramatic content of the events was in inverse proportion to the excitement of the settings. In Clark's case...
Future patients may look forward to Jarvik's electrohydraulic heart, a fully portable model powered by an implantable pump and a 5-lb. battery belt worn strapped to the waist. Jarvik hopes to have the device ready in three years. He has tested it in animals. But there is already heavy demand for the model, used last week, despite all its limitations. Still, De Vries says, "I'm not prepared to do it again until we can get Dr. Clark worked...