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...addition to the Price sisters, three other imprisoned Ulster Catholics were on hunger strikes last week. The death of any of these potential martyrs could trigger a new wave of violence. Shortly before the sisters ended their fast, spokesmen for the I.R.A. were warning of "devastating consequences" and a "terrible revenge" unless the two women were transferred to an Ulster jail. British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who had to make the decision, appeared genuinely tortured by his dilemma-whether to give in under pressure or let the women die. In a statement issued by the Home Office, he clearly hinted...
Anesthetics can be given safely to most surgical patients. But for a small minority, anesthesia can trigger a rare hereditary disorder called malignant hyperthermia - a potentially lethal rise in body temperature. A group of Boston doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine that malignant hyperthermia can be brought under control by use of a heart-lung machine to cool the blood. But the condition can also be avoided by presurgical testing. Researchers have identified the genetic defect that causes the ailment and have devised a means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient...
...UNIONIST GOALS. We would never form a government that would give [Ulster's Catholic] minority a veto over the whole constitution. Sunningdale [the power-sharing agreement] was merely the trigger. The real target was the destruction of the Executive. We may not get everything we want, but we're in a position to stop anything we don't want...
...another $1.5 million for additional drilling to recover gas from the lower cavities. But even if they can, the future of nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than the AEC'S experts had predicted, limiting the amount...
Whatever formula is devised for federal financing, wouldn't a plump public kitty encourage frivolous fringe candidates? Certainly, unless some form of "trigger" or "threshold" mechanism is devised that would compel a candidate to raise a certain amount of private money before federal funds were doled...