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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplied equipment. South Korea asked for $3 billion in new aid over a five-year period, settled for half, and will get patrol boats, radar gear and a $26 million M-16 rifle plant. Taiwan has already begun to manufacture its own helicopters under a contract with Bell. U.S. advisers are also training the Nationalist Chinese to repair trucks, tanks, personnel carriers and other equipment damaged in Viet Nam, with the hope that Taiwan will eventually become an area resupply center...
...ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when he failed to answer the seventh-round bell and a year later lost to Clay again in a 102-second title bout in which he was felled by a "phantom" righthand punch that many ringside observers thought not strong enough to be a knockout punch...
...stiff fine equivalent to reparation. Another possibility for changing criminal behavior is "aversion therapy," which is used, for example, to cure bed wetting in children. Instead of chiding or coddling the child, the therapist has him sleep on a low-voltage electric blanket linked to a battery and a bell. Urine, which is electrolytic, then activates the bell, the child awakes and goes to the bathroom. A cure usually follows soon...
Seven other persons were named in the indictment Tuesday as co-conspirators but not as defendants. They are: the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, brother of Philip Berrigan; Sister Beverly Bell; Sister Marjorie Ashuman; Thomas Davidson; Paul Mayer, a former priest; and professor William Davidson of Haverford College...
Richards, a former Bell Laboratories engineer and former Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics at Harvard, founded TeleSessions after years of brooding about his conviction that some 50 million private telephones in the U.S. were being wasted in two-way conversations. "It's as if everybody had a TV set but there weren't any programs," he says. "So the possibilities are unlimited." Richards optimistically foresees the day when Paris chefs will join in a gourmet-cooks session, when labor negotiators mediate quickly and amenably (hostility seems to evaporate during a group phone discussion) and when brain surgeons...