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...million times. In the final days, Clark's doctors debated what steps they would take to preserve the patient's life: whether, for instance, it would be medically and ethically appropriate to try kidney dialysis on someone so ill. In the end, however, Clark's rapid deterioration obviated such questions. Said Clark's surgeon, William DeVries: "It was essentially the death of the entire being except for the artificial heart." Shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, having consulted with Clark's wife Una Loy, DeVries said, "This courageous man's heart was turned...
OPEC is counting on a surge in demand to firm up prices. For several weeks, oil refiners have been shunning OPEC crude and drawing down their inventories at a particularly rapid clip-some 4 million to 5 million bbl. per day-in anticipation of price cuts. At some point, the refiners will have to start rebuilding their stocks. In addition, the emerging economic recovery in the industrial nations could spur oil consumption and send prices back...
That perception may be overdrawn: the shift is far more noticeable in oratory than in the substance of policy. But on the rhetorical level it is fully deliberate. White House advisers fear that the Administration is losing the consensus for a rapid U.S. military buildup that President Reagan had created. Says one of Reagan's advisers: "We need to give a better justification for our military plans." The best way to do that, aides believe, is to emphasize once again the threat of Soviet expansionism...
...decision to proceed with MIRVs was taken by President Johnson and was made irrevocable in the Nixon Administration. We proceeded because in the climate of the Viet Nam period we were reluctant to give up the one strategic offensive program that was funded with which to counter the rapid Soviet missile force buildup; because we doubted that the Soviets could achieve accuracies to threaten our missile force in the foreseeable future; and because the Soviets ignored our hints to open the subject of a MIRV ban in the SALT talks. Whatever our reasons, there can be no doubt that...
...delayed. Says an Administration official: "Hussein set that March 1 date when it looked like the Lebanon talks were moving. Now I'll bet he wishes he had said April 1, or May 1, or God knows when." Nonetheless, Hussein is known to be deeply worried about the rapid pace of Israeli colonization of the West Bank. He may yet decide that he must make a move without waiting for explicit P.L.O. backing...