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...organizations in the East bloc. After World War II, the KGB organized intelligence networks in all the satellites. KGB liaison officers are still posted in the security services of each Warsaw Pact nation. Some intelligence experts believe that the KGB may have taken direct control of the Cuban security apparatus...
...months ago when it learned of the scam, but word of the investigation broke only last week in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. According to one report, an angry former employee complained to his friends that he had been fired from his job at Kodak's apparatus division less than a month after he had paid $1,000 to get the position...
...fashioned firing squads or hangings. The electric chair killed quickly and, it was thought, painlessly. It seemed, in any case, up to date, civilized. (This progressive image is somewhat at odds with the testimony of Willie Francis, 17, who survived a sublethal shock by Louisiana's portable apparatus in 1946. Francis said the experience was in all "plumb miserable." His mouth tasted "like cold peanut butter," and he saw "little blue and pink and green speckles." Added Francis: "I felt a burning in my head and my left leg, and I jumped against the straps." A year later, back...
...Reagan Administration come around to the view that the crisis is potentially dangerous and unlikely to blow over quickly. As a consequence, the U.S. Government became involved in both the Mexico and Brazil rescues. Last month Treasury Secretary Donald Regan appealed for concerted international action to devise a new "apparatus" to handle currency and debt problems, although he admitted that he was still "groping" for what form that should take. Said Regan: "There must be a better...
...year. For this reason, Barnard's fellow pioneers, Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley, say the Utah heart is an important breakthrough. Both believe, however, that it should be used only temporarily to sustain patients until donors can be found. Cooley has in fact twice used a more primitive apparatus than Jarvik's for this purpose. Says Cooley: "I've never thought of the artificial heart and transplant as being competitive. They complement each other...