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...soldier's reasoning, which flatly opposes reductions of strength on principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter." So far, the Administration has compromised on the figure...
...country. Civil rights were suspended. A list of don'ts ordered Greeks not to retain shotguns, not to use radio transmitters and not to criticize the new regime. Also on the don't list were soccer (might draw excitable crowds) and fireworks (might make a sentry trigger-happy). The press was under total censorship. Telephones and telegrams to places abroad were monitored by censors...
...power failures. The toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
...theory, so versatile a natural body component should be ideal for replacing corneas, blood vessels, valves, and perhaps even whole organs. But practical considerations have long frustrated theory. In humans, animal collagen almost certainly would trigger inflammatory reactions and rejection mechanisms. Now, through the unlikely partnership of a Japanese shoe-leather company, which was making sausage casings on the side, and the Rogosin Laboratories of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, it looks as though animal collagen may yet become the ideal material for many medical uses...
...bananas really work? The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and dimethyl tryptamine, and which just might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...