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...NATO, Bob Dole was winding up visits to London and Brussels during which he called for an end to the arms embargo against the Bosnians. The man who will soon become the Republican majority leader in the U.S. Senate was given short shrift in Britain, where Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind termed American criticisms of British policy "disgraceful" and demanded that Washington remain silent if it would not send troops to Bosnia...
...British, it was typical American naivete. Exclusion zones need ground troops to monitor the terrain, take weaponry into holding areas and report violations. The U.S. suggested policing the proposed zone with aircraft. The allies again said no. The task "requires more than rhetoric," said British Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, and "if I may say, more than air power." Bosnia, says a worried NATO official, "has done more to undermine NATO than the Soviets ever...
...Sacks' study raises the issue that we need more information before we change guidelines," Rifkind said, "It is not justified to alter cholesterol recommendations and treatment based on this study, since other studies in this field suggest evidence to the contrary...
...still need to know a lot more about patients with low cholesterol and coronary disease," Rifkind said...
...Rifkind summarized Sacks' study as a "well done study, a small study with not all the evidence relating to this study pointing to Sacks' results...