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Unless Vance, in the time remaining on his tour begins to crack some of the Middle East's hard nuts. Jimmy Carter's optimism will be heavily discounted. Administration officials already have grim forebodings; the region's leaders warn that time is running short. Sadat has said that if this is not the year for peace, hate and war will again be in terrible, senseless ascendancy," while an Israeli Cabinet minister added: "If the situation freezes again, we will face another crisis...
...especially dangerous to victims of heart attacks and emphysema. Rather than producing sharply different symptoms, it is likely to exaggerate the difficulties that such patients are already suffering-a medical fact cited by Suburban General as one explanation of the delay in discovering the mixup. Whatever its cause, the grim Suburban story is by no means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages to the family of Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas. Four years ago, 14 deaths resulted from...
Conditions outside the cells in the courthouses were almost as grim. From criminal court in Brooklyn, TIME'S Paul Witteman reported: "The smell of vomit permeated the lobby. There were puddles of urine on the floor. In one corner, a Hispanic woman shrieked uncontrollably. Court officers administered oxygen to two women who had been felled by the heat and the strain of not knowing what had happened to relatives locked up in the cells. Police broke up a group of people being interviewed by a radio reporter. In the midst of the shouting and shoving, one man was arrested...
...Rockefeller scientists base their grim conclusions on an 18-day tour of China completed in May. Nearly two years in the planning, the trip to the People's Republic was arranged at Seitz's request after several groups of Chinese scientists had visited the U.S. and toured Rockefeller, which counts 16 Nobel laureates among its alumni and faculty. The eleven American scientists visited five major Chinese cities, half a dozen universities and nine of the country's 100 research institutes, many of which exist in name only. With few exceptions, they found their hosts open and eager...
Output Threatened. In the Northwest, drought has threatened the output of river-based hydroelectric generators. "The future for the Pacific Northwest is very grim," says Dan Schausten, an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration, which services Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana. If the drought persists next year, B.P.A. may impose electricity cutbacks-and, in the worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere...