European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday november 24 no wasted Energy not even in St. Petersburg ha., dig their own while most people in the cold climes Are eng the thermostats in Homes and of Way of life in the  heating Oil and Low files these folks at pass a Grille Beach a photo researcher reports pot unsuited As a major surgical anaesthesia Philadelphia not a univer sity of Pennsylvania Anaesthesiologist investigating the possible medical uses of marijuana  tentatively concluded that the drug is unsuited for a major role As a surgical anaesthesia. However or. Robert e. Johns one says preliminary indications from huge doses of tetrahydrocannabinol the injected intravenously into human volunteers do not Rule out possible uses in conjunction with other primary aesthetics. I Don t think the drug is turning out to be the dream drug As an aesthetic agent some  hoped Johnstone said. Last too Long the major reasons he said Are that the effects last too Long they Are not quickly reversible by the use of some other drug in Case of a bad reaction and most importantly in his View the injections caused vastly accelerated pulse rates in each of the 11 subjects Given the drug. In one Case arrhythmia irregular heart beat developed and that is reason for concern he said. Such a reaction would be of Little danger to a Young healthy patient but you certainly would t want to administer it to anyone who did not have a Strong  Johnstone s research being conducted under a Grant made to a senior researcher or. Theodore Smith is the most intensive so far into the physiological effect of Mas Sive doses of the. The doses Johnstone said Are the largest so far administered to human subjects on an experimental basis. Typical intravenous dosages Are the equivalent of from 100 to 200 marijuana cigarettes. Despite the High dosages in no instance did Johnstone achieve anaesthesia part Ial or total loss of feeling although some sedative and analgesic effect was noted. This suggested to the 29-year-old researcher that some application might be possible for the drug possibly As a substitute for drugs such As morphine or scopolamine normally administered in conjunction with the primary  trips two of the 11 subjects in the first round of testing reacted badly to the Large doses. In the language of the drug culture they  bad  both dropped out of the experiments. One of the two was also a physician or. Frank Murphy who  previous experimental experience with intravenous drug injections both As a subject and As a re searcher. Murphy said that with the the he developed a Strong anxiety. Nameless Ter ror7 is a Good enough name for it. I was simply very  Johnstone said i think you could say at this Point that the drug does t have the necessary advantages for an aesthetic and it May have  Egypt orders new study of Oil pipeline by Clyde h. Farnsworth Paris not Egypt  ordered a new feasibility study for the sued pipeline raising doubts whether the big Gest project in years involving americans in the Middle East will Ever get under Way it  been Learned. Informed Arab banking sources in Paris said the egyptians were worried that the proposed 210-mile pipeline which would link the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean would lose some of its economic justification if the Suez canal is reopened. High on the list of egyptian priorities after any peace settlement in the Middle East Are the. Clearing and widening of the canal which  been clogged with sunken hulks since the six Day Arab israeli War of 1967. Egypt  been losing about $250 million a year in canal tolls from the closure. Moscow also  a stake in the reopening of the canal. To move from the Black sea and Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and Pacific ports of the soviet Union the soviet Navy now  to steam thousands of Miles around Africa. Neither is Happy neither the United states nor China is Happy about the strategic advantages that the soviet Union would gain from the canal s reopening. A week before the 1973 Arab israeli War broke out Egypt announced that it would give the pipeline contract to Bechtel inc. Of. San Francisco the International construction company. Kidder Peabody the new York investment Bank in cooperation with the first National City Bank said it would arrange the financing. Bechtel said it could do the Job for $400 million which was about $20 million less than the bid from a rival european group composed of the Bati Nolle co. Of France and its Bankers a consortium of Arab and Western financial houses organized by France s big state owned Bank the credit Lyonnais. The project  been considered by Cairo Ever since 1967, but there was always a question whether enough Oil would pass through the pipeline to earn Egypt sufficient royalties. The pipeline and canal Are from one Point of View competitors. Tankers of up to 100,000 tons moved through the canal before 1967 from the Oil Rich persian Gulf to Europe. Plans Are to Widen and deepen the canal so that it can accommodate tank ers of up to 300,000 tons under ballast. It is much More expensive to transport Oil by pipeline than by Tanker and so the incentive would be to use the canal. Few spared in sex envoy s account diaries of life love at the top by Julie Flint London a Marlene Dietrich  hideous arms Somerset maugham was a homosexual snob and King Edward Viii was irresponsible and nearly a mental  these claims Are written by a former British Diplomat and gossip columnist in his account of life and love at the top in the years 1915 to 1938. The diaries of sir Robert Bruce lock Hart published by Macmillan Cap a bumper year of intimate and often scandalous revelations by High society scribblers. Lockhart s chronicles following the tone set earlier this year by novelists Evelyn Waugh and Vita Sackville West spare no one. Dietrich appearing with Douglas fair Banksjr. At covent Garden  Eye lashes three inches Long hard cruel face hideous  maugham was a nervous Pervert redeemed Only by his Iron  Arnold Bennett  a liking for German homosexual pornography. Lockhart a former Diplomat in Moscow noted in 1932 that the Prince of Wales was quite  the future Monarch allegedly told the author it was no business of ours to interfere in Germany s internal affairs either re jews or anything else. He added that dictators were very popular these Days and we might want one in eng land before  five years later Lockhart was Specula Ting on the intimate life of the King who  abandoned his throne to marry american Divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. He quoted a prominent London socialite As blaming mrs. Simpson for the abdication. Lady Emerald Cunard is sure that the Duke of Windsor  not yet lived with mrs. Simpson and that he worships her As a virginal Saint Lockhart wrote in 1937 shortly before Edward s marriage. I doubt this. I agree that since he met her he  taken no decisions without consulting  another leading London hostess count Ess Tommy Rosslyn third wife of the Earl of Rosslyn was afraid for the sex Monarch Lockhart wrote knowing that he is irresponsible and nearly a tent a  Lockhart who wrote the londoner column in the London evening Standard for Many years died in 1970. He retired from the diplomatic corps to write the column after the paper s owner newspaper tycoon lord Beaverbrook offered him the Job