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...until well after the trigger-happy trip that we are told-on the installment plan-how many lives we really paid because we would rather fight than switch to diplomacy...
...test indicates that the patient will yield only one or two, he administers HCG to trigger release. If the test suggests the ripening of more than two eggs, he withholds the drug; the small doses of Clomid and Pergonal alone are insufficient to produce ovulation. Kistner's system appears to be effective. Of 80 patients treated with Clomid and Pergonal in sequence, most of those with simple ovulation problems became pregnant and had babies. Only one woman had more than one baby, and she had only twins...
...Minh was not a Kaiser or a Hitler, and there were at first no massed armies sweeping over traditional allied lands that made an American response automatic. There was not even a Korean type of open aggression that could trigger an easy and obvious presidential order to counterattack. From Dwight Eisenhower down to Gerald Ford, the Viet Nam decisions were more the stuff of character of a single man than in any other major conflict this nation has fought...
Unproductive as Geneva promises to be, however, the alternative - renewed war - is obviously much worse. There is a clear and present danger that some incident could trigger a war even before the talks begin. During the negotiations, in deference to the Kissinger shuttle, Israel did not retaliate against the Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel last month (TIME, March 17) in which eleven Israelis were killed. A major raid on fedayeen hideouts in southern Lebanon could lead to larger trouble, especially now that the P.L.O. and the Syrians have agreed to form a unified military command. Many...
Pentagon officials joke that "the Persian Gulf will sink under all the arms that it is buying." There are growing fears, however, that this amassing of aims in the Gulf area could trigger an accidental war. The Arab-Israeli conflict aside, there are bitter rivalries between the neighboring states and sheikdoms. Aryan Iran, even though it is a Moslem country, has never been fully trusted by its Semitic Arab neighbors. Experts do not rule out a future conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Tehran's support of the Kurdish rebellion against Baghdad, as well as longstanding frontier disputes, has already...