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...doctor's office or an out-patient clinic. One of the first and most grateful beneficiaries of the new treatment system is David M. Raatz, a California attorney who lives in Monrovia and practices in San Marino. At 26, Raatz has had gallons of plasma and concentrates to stanch the bleeding that recurs most commonly in his ankles, knees and elbows. He never used to know when he would be able to appear in court when a case was called; at best, he might have to hobble in on crutches...
Promise of Compensation. Britain's hopes for an economic turnaround were further buoyed by its new financing arrangements. Purpose of the ten-year credit package was to stanch flight from the pound by countries in the so-called "sterling area," which consists of all British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus such other countries as Kuwait, Jordan, Libya and Ireland. Because they hold the bulk of their reserves in pounds, most sterling-area members suffered automatic losses when the pound was devalued-and a number of them have lately been selling off large amounts of sterling...
...trade and investment, is pegged to that of gold. But most non-Communist currencies are measured against the value of the dollar. Thus any change in the dollar price for bullion would upset the value of every other currency, risking global monetary chaos. Still, if the U.S. fails to stanch its decade-long balance of payments hemorrhage, sooner or later it will own too little gold to defend the $35-an-oz. price...
...Kremlin also moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
...closed the bleeding sites in the duodenum and cut the vagus nerve to reduce the stomach's output of digestive acids. But these measures, plus massive transfusions, failed to halt the bleeding, and Kasperak was soon back in surgery. In another 21-hour operation, the surgeons tried to stanch the bleeding from an ulcer high in his stomach, and removed his spleen in the hope of improving the clotting quality of his blood. But to no avail: this week Kasperak died...