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...year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...
...calcium blockers, which have been mainstays of therapy in Europe and Japan for some years but are just now being introduced in the U.S., also promise to deal beneficially with coronary artery spasm, a phenomenon whose importance is becoming more widely recognized. These sudden clampdowns can close arteries that are clear of plaque, leaving no trace, after the vessels relax, that the spasm ever occurred...
They are a greater threat when the arteries are already narrowed. "There are probably some patients with pure atherosclerosis, and some with pure coronary artery spasm," says Braunwald, "but I suspect the majority of patients have both...
These are classic symptoms of a heart attack, or what doctors call a myocardial infarction. Such attacks occur all too frequently in the U.S., striking one American every 21 seconds. They can hit suddenly, without any obvious hint of previous disease, when coronary arteries pinch shut in a spasm. But they usually result from a lifelong buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart. If these coronary vessels become badly obstructed, the flow of vital blood and oxygen is reduced or cut off entirely. When that happens, parts of the heart are starved. It is the death...
...insipid but reptilian nephew, Oscar's son Leo (Dennis Christopher), raids the bank vault and thwarts his uncle. As Horace cradles the all but empty bank box, Regina goads him into a heart spasm and icily denies him the lifesaving pills that are just beyond his reach. After a few more calculated turns of Lillian Hellman's plot screws, Regina proves to be more fearsome than any little...