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...without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says the institute's Burt Krashes: "Anyone caught with a laser-inscribed stone would be a dead duck." The typical cost for the owner of a one-carat stone is about $110. Since a flawless diamond of that size runs anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000, a girl's best friend may soon...
...Americans aboard Flight 007. When Kelly attempted to hand Sokolov the note, the Soviet diplomat refused to accept it. Kelly then declared that the U.S. refused to accept Sokolov's refusal. The routine was repeated at week's end when Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt called Sokolov back to the State Department and tried to give him a note protesting the Soviet refusal to accept the compensation demand. That too was refused. The somber Alphonse-and-Gaston routine left the U.S. looking for a way to deliver the compensation demand, which is not formally in effect until...
Even before Reagan returned to Washington, an interagency team led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt had considered some 30 possible retaliatory steps, including a broad rupture of diplomatic negotiations with the Soviets, and rejected nearly all of them. The Pentagon proposed at least breaking off the long-running and so far fruitless talks in Vienna with the Soviets on reduction of conventional arms in Europe, and got turned down...
DIED. Leonard Burt, 91, British detective who worked with the crack intelligence agency M15 during World War II and who later (1946-58) commanded Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, which is responsible for security of the royal family; in London. As England's premier sleuth in the 1940s, Burt collared Traitors William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery and Atomic Spies Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Quiet and affable, Burt had an uncanny knack for extracting incriminating information from suspects. In his memoirs, he wrote of the typical quarry: "In many cases, he is only...
RECOVERING. Burt Lancaster, 69, rugged, resilient Oscar-winning film actor (Elmer Gantry, 1960); from a six-hour quadruple-bypass heart operation; in Los Angeles. Lancaster, whose 59 movies include From Here to Eternity and Atlantic City, is expected to leave the hospital this week...