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Coop officials refused to comment on the specific allegations. Pena refused to confirm or deny the incident, or to comment...
...recent twelve-month period Korean Air Lines and two government-controlled South Korean companies made 60 separate purchases of Hawk missiles and related parts. On the basis of their intelligence sources, U.S. Customs officials contend that these missiles were destined for Iran. Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department and Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., supplied Iran with Chinook choppers in violation...
...first work stoppage in the crucial energy industry since a military coup ousted the last elected civilian government in 1964. In Rio de Janeiro, 30,000 protesters marched; many waved placards urging the government not to surrender the nation. After Figueiredo's speech, which seemed to confirm the public's fears, Joaquim Dos Santos Andrade, president of the São Paulo Metalworkers Union, said: "This is the best way to throw more wood onto the fire." A coalition of 31 metalworker unions called for a one-day nationwide strike this week...
...findings at the other end of those searching instruments have excited the entire scientific world. In the past four years, Fermilab's major overseas rivals, notably CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), located outside Geneva, have discovered a group of new particles that helps confirm what physicists call the standard model. This divides matter into two basic types of particles: quarks, which are the building blocks of protons, neutrons and other "heavy" components of the atomic nucleus; and leptons, exemplified by "light" particles like the electron...
...urgently seeking to convince the world that the Soviet Union has been guilty, in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, of violating international bans on chemical warfare. The alleged weapon: "yellow rain," a lethal spray of poisons. The Soviets have denied the charge, and a United Nations panel was unable to confirm it. Now, to the considerable embarrassment of U.S. officials, a group of respected scientists has offered a new theory. Said Harvard Biochemist Matthew Meselson last week at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "There is good evidence that yellow rain is bee excrement...