Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hussein apparently intends to try to repair his torn kingdom, a courageous but possibly foolhardy decision. Last week he appointed a new government, half civilian, half military, with former Chief of the Royal Court Ahmed Toukan as Premier. But the King is left with few foreign friends, surrounded by implacable foes and plagued by a shortage of funds. A majority of the people in his kingdom are potential antagonists, and a sizable portion of his country is in Israeli hands. During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case...
...orbit of Soviet influence. Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed...
Grandfather's Speed. As yet, the Russians have not even begun to think about drive-ins, roadside restaurants or the other conveniences that are a part of the auto age in the West. In Moscow alone, a city of 7,300,000, there are only 19 repair shops, 105 gas stations and 32 parking lots. "When I need my car fixed, I have to call a plumber," laments one Moscow auto owner...
...most effective and promising operations, now being performed by an increasing number of surgeons, actually repair the damaged facial nerve. Three techniques have been developed. One simply rejoins the ends of the severed nerve by means of sutures, much as surgeons rejoin damaged arteries or torn muscle tissues. Another, the nerve crossover, requires the use of an undamaged nerve-usually the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue movement-to innervate facial muscles as well. The third and most difficult procedure is the autogenous nerve graft: surgeons remove a piece of nerve fiber from elsewhere in the patient's body...
What Can Be Done? Texas wells produce little industrial oil, however, and there is nothing that Washington could have done to prevent the shortage of heavy heating oil. For the next few months, the energy shortage seems bound to worsen, barring a return of tranquillity to the Middle East, repair of the Syrian pipeline break and a consequent freeing of tanker tonnage. Nuclear-power plants have been delayed by costs, safety concerns and opposition from environmental groups, and cannot be expected to fill much of the energy gap before the early 1980s. In the meantime, if the nation wants...