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Even before Carter's Inauguration, Leonid Brezhnev had signaled his readiness to work with the incoming President "to accomplish a major new advance in relations." Speaking at Tula, a three-century-old armaments manufacturing center 100 miles south of Moscow, the Kremlin chief pledged that the U.S.S.R. "will never embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford...
This is a condensed version of a public lecture at the Science Center, January 5, 1977 given by Bernard D. Davis '34, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology at the Medical School...
John L. Nichols '79 said yesterday he felt bad enough early Monday morning to go to UHS emergency clinic in Holyoke Center. He said he was told to go home and stay in bed, and not to take his Math la, "Introduction to the Calculus," exam yesterday morning if he still felt...
...unleashing an epidemic. In Camp Detrick, working for 25 years on the most communicable and virulent pathogens known, 423 laboratory infections were seen, most caused by respiratory pathogens. Yet there was not a single case of secondary spread to any person outside the laboratory. Similarly, in the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service 150 laboratory infections were recorded, with one case of transmission to a relative. Elsewhere in the world there have been about two dozen laboratory-based microepidemics recorded, each involving a few outsiders...
Laqueur, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., compares modern terrorism with bygone atrocities. He coolly concludes that urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority...