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Doubtless the Communist rebels would secure a substantial voice in the future Laotian government, might well be able to win over the country the slower but safer way-without firing a shot. The optimists in the State Department said that all the West really needs to hold is the Southern crest of Laos that buffers Thailand and South Viet Nam from Communism. Pessimists, and there were many, feared that the magnetism of Communism would soon pull over any "neutral" Laos...
...Though the problems of disarmament are great, they are not insuperable for nations of good will," Sohn concluded. "Certainly disarmament is a much safer alternative than the present arms race...
...small spotter plane to scan the back roads for signs of a speeding car. There was little chance of the fugitives crossing an Angolan border point, for the heavily armed Portuguese police would hardly welcome a notorious revolutionary at this stage (see below). If Lumumba was free, a safer bet was that he and his friends were making their way toward the north, where Lumumba's allies were strongly entrenched in Kivu and Eastern provinces...
...surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most of the Behrman-Wright cases, the patients took their anticoagulants (usually drugs of the coumarin family) without...
...with the run of the camp and energetically subverting the loyalty of the troops guarding him. For a few hours, no one was certain whether it was Lumumba or Kasavubu who was the prisoner. When order was restored, Kasavubu decided that it was time to move Lumumba to a safer place. He opened negotiations with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Late one night Lumumba was hustled on board a chartered Air Congo plane and delivered to Elisabethville. En route, the guards pummeled Lumumba so severely that the alarmed pilot went back to the cabin to warn against damage...