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...well as a penchant for eating out, Americans have been taking in megadoses of salt. In the U.S. today the average adult consumes two to 2½ teaspoons a day, more than 20 times what the body needs. An estimated 35 million people suffer from hypertension, 60 million if mild cases are included. Nearly half of the population over 65 years old is affected. Says Boston Hypertension Expert Dr. Lot Page, chief of medicine at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital: "The link between salt and hypertension is as firm as the link between high cholesterol and heart disease...
...week. The governments of Canada and Japan indefinitely suspended negotiations over rescheduling Polish debt payments due this year and imposed severe restrictions on most new credits to Poland. The Japanese also postponed official trade talks with the Soviets. Foreign ministers of the European Community, meanwhile, agreed to put a mild squeeze on Moscow by increasing the interest on Soviet export credits and limiting some Soviet imports...
...Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the committee: "There's no way a student's brain can function normally when he uses marijuana daily. It's a definite risk, but there's no way to evaluate that risk in a quantitative way." Mild withdrawal symptoms that sometimes occur among heavy users indicate the drug can lead to physical dependence, but the committee stressed that so far there is no evidence that marijuana actually causes addiction...
Former President Jimmy Carter said the adoption of his successor's budget would be "one of the worst economic mistakes our country has ever made." Other Democrats sounded comparatively mild. Rumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "I don't believe the President appreciates the depth of what is going on. Generally, I like the fella. He tells a good Irish story. But he has forgotten his roots. He associates with the country club-style of people." To which Reagan retorted: "Well, I have only played golf once since I have been President, and he is an inveterate...
...even the allies' show of harmony at Madrid could hardly disguise the disunity within the Western Alliance. Less than two months after President Reagan's unilateral decision to impose mild economic sanctions on Poland and the Soviet Union, the European allies, except for Great Britain and Portugal, have failed to impose economic sanctions independent of the U.S.'s, despite an agreement to examine possible measures at a special NATO ministers meeting in January...