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...launch on warning" alert. The more vulnerable its ICBMs, the more tempted the Kremlin would be to fire them off at the first indication of a U.S. attack-to "use them or lose them." The MX, in effect, would put the superpowers into the position of holding hair-trigger pistols to each other's heads. In this way, it would become part of the American strategic problem rather than the solution. Some Western experts even suspect the Soviets may already have adopted a launch-on-warning doctrine...
...chymopapain does have one drawback. Injection of the chemical can trigger a potentially fatal response known as anaphylactic shock. The reaction, which cannot be predicted in an individual, can lead to the collapse of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The FDA points out, however, that in the new clinical trials with more than 1,400 patients, anaphylaxis occurred in only 1% of cases, and of these just two patients died. The mortality rate of .14% for chymopapain is about the same as that for lumbar disc surgery. Still, surgeons are cautioning patients that chymopapain is a last-ditch therapy short...
...already tight production schedule was squeezed tighter. Any delay in NATO deployment, warned West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner on a recent visit to Washington, would "trigger very, very serious consequences." Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose said last week that the missile is still on schedule, but wondered whether Europeans might conclude that it is defective. He hopes that a dozen successful test flights will restore its reputation...
Under Bossert's plan, individual smoke detectors would also be left in students' rooms, but these do not trigger the main dormitory system...
...instructors were never sure what to expect of the female cadets, Blancy says. She recalls a shooting instructor who separated the women from the rest and told them to "go home and squeeze a tennis ball 500 times every night" so that they would be able to pull the trigger of a revolver. The following week on the range, Blancy--currently one of the two best shots in the department--tied with a male cadet for the group's top score, a perfect 100 mark. She then suggested to the instructor "that he just announce to the whole class that...