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...Valle (whose nation has helped trigger the current Latin American weapons buildup) demands: "Let the industrial nations stop their indecent competition in the sale of arms to the Third World nations!" Dr. Dale Tahtinen, assistant director of foreign-and defense-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, agrees. "If countries were left to themselves," says Tahtinen, "they would mostly buy only what they need as they perceive it ... the cheap stuff and not the flashy weapons...
...members' divergent backgrounds and views trigger lively exchanges. Says Senior Editor Marshall Loeb: "The crossfire of their opinions produces rare illuminations for journalists...
...Daniel Drooz after a trip there last week, is rigged with devices to forestall infiltration. There are observation posts, defoliated zones, minefields and electronic detectors, searchlights and magnesium flares for nighttime detection and barbed wire. "If they can get their hands up faster than I can pull the trigger," one soldier told Drooz, "then I'll take them prisoner...
Such is his impact on international affairs that almost anything said by Henry Kissinger is bound to attract widespread attention and comment. Last week-perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not-the Secretary of State managed to trigger a worldwide uproar. In a lengthy Business Week interview, Kissinger responded to a question about possible U.S. military intervention against the oil producers by cautiously noting that this would be "a very dangerous course." But then, using a complicated-not to mention cryptic-triple negative, he added: "I am not saying that there is no circumstance where we would not use force...
...pressure of blood in the arteries, causing fluid to accumulate behind the heart, in the lungs and extremities. In either case, the result will be the same: a heart attack that can cripple or kill its victim. In a chicken-and-egg situation, high blood pressure can also trigger complex mechanisms that will reduce blood flow to the kidneys. That, in turn, reduces the capacity of the kidneys to help rid the body of its waste material, and the kidneys themselves may eventually fail...