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Doomsday Prospect. Under close analysis, the Kissinger statement did not seem to warrant such a reaction. In a sense, it merely expressed the obvious. It is hard to see how Kissinger could have ruled out military action absolutely under any circumstances. A sovereign power must retain the option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard...
...failings-of the heart. But he also looked elsewhere in the circulatory system, and in 1955 he made an important discovery: he learned that increases in the blood levels of potassium can stimulate the production of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that raises blood pressure by causing the kidneys to retain salt...
Usually renin production ceases when blood pressure reaches the proper level. In this case, the cutoff mechanism had failed. The man's renin was triggering the production of excess aldosterone, which in turn was increasing the body's tendency to retain salt. The process caused fatally high blood pressure...
...SAUDI-U.S. RELATIONS: "Saudi Arabia is willing to retain its close relationship with the U.S. The relationship has been good, except when the Americans showed partiality toward Israel. Furthermore, we can safely say that Soviet infiltration in the area came as a result of Western policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...minutes for the next three or four years." With 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the Progressives became the second largest faction in that body, after the Social Democrats' 46 seats and ahead of the Liberals' 22 seats. Current polls project that the Progressives will retain most of their support...