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...Phoenix heart sustained Creighton long enough for another human heart to be found and implanted. But it soon became clear that the ten hours he had spent on a heart-lung machine had taken their toll. As a result of blood- vessel damage, fluid had accumulated in his lungs, causing a buildup of pressure on the right side of his new heart that ultimately proved fatal...
...deliberately seeking a confrontation, the Reagan Administration sent a routine request to Wellington asking for permission for the U.S.S. Buchanan, a destroyer, to call at a New Zealand port during the ANZUS military exercise, named Sea Eagle, planned for March. The Buchanan is a conventionally powered vessel, but since the U.S. refuses, by long-standing policy, to state whether a particular ship is or is not carrying nuclear weapons, the New Zealand ban effectively applied...
...large extent, the issue is symbolic. Last year only one U.S. nuclear- powered vessel called in New Zealand; it would be relatively easy for the U.S. to send nothing but conventionally powered vessels to that country for the time being. But the key issue is whether they are nuclear-armed, and with that in mind, the Administration maintains that partners in a defense pact have no business imposing restrictions on one another. Says a senior Administration official: "Naval forces and their needs are as central to ANZUS as ground forces in Germany are central to NATO...
Citizen Hughes contains plenty of grist for a Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four...
...nuclear-powered ships. Such a stand would effectively ban all U.S warships from New Zealand ports, since Washington declines to indicate which of its ships carry nuclear weapons. The matter came to a head last week when Lange refused a routine U.S. request to allow an American naval vessel to call on New Zealand during naval exercises in March. The Prime Minister thus set the stage for a prolonged and potentially bitter battle with Washington over the future of the 1951 ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.) security pact...