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Does an effective treatment for lead poisoning exist? Yes, provided it begins before too much damage is done. Doctors get the lead out with a process called chelation, using drugs that bind to the metal in the bloodstream, allowing it to be flushed out in the urine. The drug of choice has been calcium-disodium EDTA, but it is usually administered intravenously over several days in a hospital. The Food and Drug Administration has approved for + use in children an oral drug called DMSA, which does not require hospitalization. But effective as chelation is, doctors point out that medical treatment...
...matter how much he must depend on the armed forces, Gorbachev will have to think carefully before turning to martial law in the republics that defy him. All 15 of the republics -- with giant Russia in the lead -- are in some ways loosening the ties that bind them to Moscow, and despite the pervasiveness of the security forces, it is not clear they could hold them all in check at the same time. "If they have to crack down in lots of places," says an analyst in Washington, "that could create a revolutionary situation." The Soviet people can still...
...resolution would also bind Iraq and Kuwait to settle any outstanding disputes between them by peaceful means. It would recommend recourse to Arab mediation...
Turkey finds itself in a particularly painful bind. Exporters had expected to sell Baghdad $600 million worth of goods, mainly iron, steel and food products. Since the U.S. and most European countries impose strict quotas on some of these imports and the markets for others are saturated, Ankara estimates that 75% of the products destined for Iraq will effectively be rendered worthless: no other foreign importer will be able to buy them...
...crumbling of the Iron Curtain has, if anything, accelerated the quest for ties that will bind across national frontiers. Now that the West is freed from its obsession with the menace to the East, statesmen are likely to be more vigilant against the dangers of nationalism in their midst. And the more willing they are to suppress old motives for making war, the more able they will be to restrain the proliferation of new means...