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...grey-painted panel truck braked to a stop. Three Viet Cong leaped out and opened fire on the two guards with sub machine guns. The MP was hit in the shoulder but still managed to get off four shotgun blasts and empty...
That's the hope as well of Self Defense Forces Director Raizo Matsuno, 48, a lean, grey-haired ex-naval officer and protege of Premier Eisaku Sato. As the man charged with Japan's immediate security decisions, Matsuno would like to upgrade Japanese defense spending from 1.3% of the gross national product to 2% (the U.S. spends nearly 9% of its G.N.P. on defense). That would amount to $1.1 billion and greatly increase both the materiel and the mobility of the armed forces. Matsuno's bill is currently before the Diet, and it has Premier Sato...
Their stories of Communist repression were no more or less chilling than all the others coming out of Cuba. What was interesting was the talk of growing shortages, as Castro's grey little island sinks deeper into economic chaos. "Anything that breaks remains broken," said a Havana clinic worker. "Anything that becomes useless remains useless." Supplies of clothing, shoes, medicine, meat are diminishing. Even coffee is declining; production this year will be only 25,000 tons, nearly 40% less than the pre-Castro average. What there is fetches a handsome price on a black market that is growing...
...Grey, Then Blue. Nor did Dr. Trimmer mention ether the next morning, when he and Anesthesiologist Lloyd Goodwin were preparing Michael Ketchum, 12, for a hernia operation. Dr. Goodwin injected fluid from the same Surital bottle/and there was the same instant reaction of spasms and coughing. The boy complained that the injection burned, but Dr. Goodwin gave more of the same fluid, and the coughing ceased. The operation went smoothly, and the boy seemed to be doing well...
...suspect that there might be something wrong with the analgesic mixture. He mixed a fresh batch, gave some to Mrs. Covington, and her' operation continued with no other anesthetic. She went to the recovery room alongside Michael Ketchum. It was not long before the boy turned ashen grey, then blue, from insufficient oxygen in his blood. So did Mrs. Covington. Despite frantic attempts at resuscitation by a belatedly alerted hospital staff, both patients died...