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Isolated Incident. The Soviet action was a serious, though probably not fatal blow to detente. Both Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have long stressed that the normalization of trade relations was a prerequisite for Soviet-American cooperation on such contentious issues as nuclear arms control and peace in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Last week, however, Kissinger presented the Soviet cancellation as an isolated incident in the general course of detente. He characterized Moscow's move as merely an "interruption"-not "a final break." Shortly thereafter, the official Soviet news agency...
Murder or Accident. Union officials were suspicious about her fatal car crash; they called in an independent accident investigator, A.O. Pipkin of Dallas. After inspecting the skid marks and finding a telltale dent in one of the Honda's rear fenders, he concluded that a second car had forced Silkwood's auto off the road-thus implying that Silkwood might have been murdered. But the Oklahoma state highway patrol cited an autopsy showing that her blood contained traces of alcohol and methaqualone, which a doctor had prescribed as a sedative. To the police, it seemed evident that...
...Pigs, the Intelligence Directorate was excluded from the operation. If it had not been, the planners and President Kennedy might have been disabused of the fatal illusion that the exile landing would provoke a popular Cuban uprising...
...remainder, the consequences can be fatal. The damage produced by hypertension may well be the nation's leading cause of death. Heart attacks and strokes kill more Americans than the other leading causes of death combined: cancer and accidents. High blood pressure alone is listed as the primary cause of only 60,000 deaths a year. But hypertension, which rarely appears on death certificates, is the underlying cause of hundreds of thousands of other deaths. Heart disease will claim an estimated 600,000 Americans in 1975, and hypertension is the major contributor to heart disease. Strokes will...
...understanding of blood pressure by mapping the human circulatory system. And not until the beginning of the 20th century did physicians develop a practical means of measuring the pressure that pushes blood through the body: the sphygmomanometer (see box page 62). The link between high blood pressure and fatal illness was not documented until 1929, when a Harvard physician, Dr. Samuel Albert Levine, noted that of 145 heart attack patients, 60% had been hypertensive...