Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scratching the Heart. What the surgical spectaculars have done, though nobody planned it that way, is to divert attention-and possibly research money-from corrective measures for heart disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately, of course, from prevention. There are already several surgical approaches designed to repair hearts after coronary occlusion but before the damage becomes near-total and irreversible, as it had in the transplant patients...
Temporary Mask. The King appears to have patched up his longstanding feud with Nasser-but only on the surface. After the disastrous June war against Israel, Feisal promised to send $140 million a year to help repair Egypt's ruined economy; Nasser, in turn, agreed to withdraw the troops that had been propping up his puppet regime in Yemen. The agreement, however, is only a temporary mask that covers but does not diminish the basic enmity between the two men. "Without question," says a confidant of the King, "Nasser is the No. 1 devil to Feisal...
...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
...scant hope of ever returning to their homes, but they continue to live in the spirit of cruel dispossession. The roads and fetid alleys are still either choked with dust or, during the winter rains, awash in light brown mud. A few shops provide essential services-shoe repair, clothing-and the U.N.'s daily ration (1,600 calories in winter) can be supplemented at ramshackle fruit and vegetable stands. Menfolk gather, as they always have, in coffeehouses, to talk and sip thick, dark coffee...
...soon as the Bennett St. repair yards become available, the Library Corporation is prepared for site-clearing, planning, and financing the complex. Massachusetts has already agreed to provide over $6 million to buy the site from the MBTA