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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have read in TIME the reference to me in Dr. Kissinger's book [Oct. 8]. I must re-establish the truth with the following observations...
...Dr. Kissinger writes that he saw me out of vanity, in order to appear in my journalistic pantheon of world leaders, but that he had never bothered to read any of my other interviews. That is not what he said to me when he received me in his office. For one full hour he discussed my interviews with Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto and Yasser Arafat, and explained that leaders don't have to be intelligent, only strong and determined...
...Dr. Kissinger claims that I put in his mouth the "cowboy phrase." He knows very well that it was he who put the fatal words into my ears and my tape recorder. After the publication of the interview, Kissinger did not deny the cowboy reference. Nor has he ever denied it in the past seven years. What he has said is that doing the interview was the stupidest thing of his life...
Though adaptive responses keep the body running for a while, even for months if some food and water are available, prolonged starvation eventually disrupts vital processes. Says Dr. Buford Nichols Jr. of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You keep falling back, like a military withdrawal, but finally the body just collapses." Adds Dr. Myron Winick of New York City's Columbia University Institute of Nutrition: "Victims of starvation have to adapt. But once they do, they have a very small margin for error." Death comes in many ways. The intestinal walls become damaged; severe and constant diarrhea...
...deal with much of the deformity of neurofibromatosis by surgery. Some of these operations are for purely cosmetic reasons. In one recent case, for example, plastic surgery was used to treat a girl of eleven who had a fold of fibrotic skin hanging from her genital area. Said Dr. P. Bela Fodor, who performed the operation at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan:"There's a good chance she will never have a recurrence and that she will go on to live a normal life...