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...American relations are connected. Intolerable Soviet behavior in one area, by this reckoning, must affect U.S. cooperation elsewhere. The Reagan Administration adopted this policy a year ago, but seemed to be edging away from it. Haig now plans to bring up items like the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and warn that the course of events in Poland will affect START negotiations. Said a State Department spokesman: "The Secretary has emphasized that the continuing repression of the Polish people, in which Soviet responsibility is clear, obviously constitutes a major setback for constructive East-West relations...
Administration officials refused to comment. But former Kissinger associates speculated that if he were still in office, he would have been among the first to warn of the risks and difficulties of reacting so forcefully. Haig's reaction was visceral. Rather than take Kissinger's critique as an intellectual challenge to Administration policy, which it was, the Secretary of State told aides that he saw it as a power grab-a ploy by Kissinger to get his old job back...
...Britain had agreed in November to join forces in case of a Japanese attack-although the offensive was expected in the Philippines or Malaya. In Infamy, to be published by Doubleday next March, Historian John Toland argues that Washington for decades covered up its failure to warn Pearl Harbor of the imminent danger...
Still, as dissimilar as Venus is from earth, scientists see its history as a cautionary tale. They warn that if carbon dioxide continues to build up in the earth's atmosphere as rapidly as it has in the past few decades from burning wood and fossil fuels, the atmosphere will become increasingly like that of Venus. Sunlight will still beat down through the atmosphere, but the CO2 will block heat from radiating back into space, raising global temperatures, melting polar ice and flooding coastal cities...
Skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates have turned many doctors into devout lawyer haters. And the M.D.s may soon get even angrier because a bimonthly legal magazine, Case & Comment, is touting yet another "new frontier in medical malpractice": the duty of a physician to warn former patients of any newly discovered danger in drugs or devices that the doctor prescribed in previous years. The magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted...