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...Soviets appear willing to accept increasingly intrusive inspections. To win U.S. ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- still unapproved because of Senate doubts about verification -- the Soviets permitted American teams to monitor an underground test in Soviet Central Asia. In recent weeks Moscow has allowed Americans to inspect cruise missiles aboard a cruiser in the Black Sea and sanctioned a visit to the Sary Shagan complex, which the Pentagon had claimed, erroneously, housed an antisatellite laser...
...foolproof: there is no verification catholicon. But perfect verification is as illusory as it is unnecessary. National security requires only that governments be able to detect militarily significant violations early enough so that they can do something about them. "Adequate" verification is indispensable to reducing the risks. Recent reports from the negotiating tables suggest that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have awakened to that fact...
...seconds. "He belongs in the pilots' hall of fame," declared Joe Sullivan, a retired flight engineer for American Airlines. The landing gear, dropped by gravity because of the hydraulics failure, helped support the part of the cabin where most survivors had been seated. The dampness of the cornfield from recent rains cushioned the crash impact. Fire-resistant seat upholstery installed at the insistence of the National Transportation Safety Board was also credited. So too were the rescue and medical efforts of the Sioux City area. So many doctors responded that there were two on hand for each hospitalized passenger. Local...
...soreness may also reflect the stresses and strains of a profession in transition. Nothing in medicine is stationary: the blinding speed of technological advances, the splintering effects of specialization, the onset of medical consumerism, the threat of malpractice suits have all bruised the doctor-patient relationship in recent years...
...turning points of the recent campaign and the specific policies of the Socialists are not likely to have a long-term effect on Japan's development. The real watershed is the birth of truly partisan politics in a previously apolitical Japan...