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...fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second car; two officers were killed. "The police are nervous," was one government officer's explanation. The next day, a Spanish military attache in France was critically wounded after being shot three times in his chest and stomach when he answered the door of his Paris suburban apartment. A French leftist group named after Juan Paredes Manot-one of the five executed terrorists-claimed credit for the shooting...
...more immediate hazards, however, are physical. The wide-ranging temperatures cause respiratory infections: chronic colds, coughs and sore throats. The highly chlorinated water that is piped to the desert often brings on stomach cramps and nausea. Dehydration comes on quickly during the daytime heat, and unless the Americans drink much more water than they are accustomed to, they will be vulnerable to sunstroke and fainting spells...
...members. He recalls one memorable strategy session in Flint, Mich., when Bernardine Dohrn exulted over the grisly details of the murders committed by the Manson family. At one point, she exclaimed: "Not only did they kill those pigs, they shoved a fork in [Sharon] Tate's stomach and then sat down and ate dinner there." Dohrn's details were wrong-it was Leno LaBianca who was stabbed with a fork-but her enthusiasm was catching. Says Grathwohl: "For the next several days, we all went around giving a sign of three fingers extended. It was to symbolize...
...incidence of ovarian cancer dropped 10%, cancer of the esophagus by 23%, cancers of the rectum and of the bladder (in women) by 26% each. Cancer of the uterus, which afflicts an estimated 61 of every 100,000 women a year, dropped 37% during this period; cancer of the stomach, which once affected 24 people per 100,000 every year, by 63%. The only increases: lung cancer (125%) and about 20% increases each in cancers of the prostate, bladder and colon in men, and the pancreas in both men and women. The rates for breast and colon cancer in women...
Despite the lower 1975 harvest, the Soviet consumer is unlikely to feel the difference, either in his stomach or his wallet. Rather than cut back on livestock and poultry output, Soviet leaders have elected to sell gold worth $636 million to get the cash to buy grain abroad. The ironic result is that although American consumers may be forced to pay more for food as a consequence of Soviet grain purchases, Soviet citizens will enjoy bread at artificially low fixed prices. They range in Moscow from 6? for a 1-lb. loaf of tasty black bread...