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Increasingly Important. The crackdown is partially a result of Soviet pressure. Concerned about the possibility of the commandos' touching off another war, Russia has in recent weeks passed word to its Arab client states that no more Soviet weapons earmarked for their armies are to be passed along to the fedayeen. When the Palestine Liberation Organization publicly complained that "the Soviet Union persists in ignoring the rights of the Palestinians," Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya hauled out one of its strongest epithets, labeling them Trotskyites. For good measure, it added that their aim of "the liquidation of Israel...
...undigested past. By that, they mean the national burden of collective guilt from the Hitler years, which saw Germany start the largest war and commit the most heinous systematic crimes, including the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews, that ever scarred the history of a civilized nation. Yet in recent years, many Germans, especially those who grew up since the war, have felt that the whole country was unjustly saddled with the burden of crimes committed by only a part of the population. As Foreign Minister Willy Brandt put it: "Twenty years is enough...
...Trouble with the Birth-Control Pills." McCall's has printed a review of dropouts, called "Why They Quit the Pill." Columnist Drew Pearson reported in his more than 600 subscribing newspapers that "at least 10% of all adverse-reaction reports are fatalities and that one-third of the recent reports on one specific pill involve death...
...Synthetics. Such impassioned distortions only becloud the truth about the Pill, which is difficult enough to establish. From the most recent technical reports, however, these conclusions emerge: 1) the Pill is the most effective contraceptive yet devised; 2) like any other potent drug, it sometimes produces side effects that may be crippling or fatal to a minute proportion of users; 3) while the risks of such side effects appear to have been wildly exaggerated, there are some women for whom the Pill should never be prescribed...
...most recent assessments of the Pill were given last month to the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians and the American College of Physicians. No two of the assembled experts agreed completely on the relative advantages and risks of the Pill, or in defining the patients for whom they would prescribe or proscribe it. Nevertheless, they reached a reasonable consensus on the most important and potentially dangerous side effects...