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...nzer was partly to blame for this calamitous brush with democracy. He had wanted to put off civilian elections until 1980, but came under heavy U.S. pressure to move the date forward. The way things now stand, a 1980 election might have been the better idea after...
...trial, in the week of the SALT meeting, was a slap in the face for the Administration. But the U.S. moved cautiously in choosing the means to protest (and there were even weekend rumors that it was negotiating some kind of exchange for Shcharansky). When the trial date was announced, the White House ostentatiously canceled trips to the U.S.S.R. by two U.S. delegations. Washington later postponed indefinitely the bilateral consultations on future U.S.-U.S.S.R. space projects...
...discuss in it some of the prospects of mammalian cloning." Bromhall promptly replied with a nine-page abstract of his doctoral thesis on cloning. But when Image was published, Bromhall found to his great surprise that the birth of the cloned boy had supposedly occurred five months before the date of Rorvik's letter. "If Rorvik's story were true," says Bromhall, "then by the time he wrote to me, he and 'the Darwin team' knew more about human cloning than anyone in the world. Then why did he ask my advice? The whole thing...
...sales involved only a piece of paper being shuffled between desks; the actual oil never changed location. The most celebrated case to date involved the rip-off of Florida Power for as much as $8.5 million. Since that fraud was made public last August by the St. Petersburg Times, FBI agents have uncovered but not yet publicly identified other daisy chains, some apparently centering in Houston. Grand juries are said to be probing into these operations...
...years have passed since a peaceful civil rights movement blossomed among the Catholic minority, unexpectedly catalyzing violence and hatred in Northern Ireland. To date, the war between Ulster's Catholics and the Protestant majority-with British army regulars caught between-has left 1,837 dead, thousands disabled, and an uncountable number seared with fury against their neighbors. (Among the most recent fatalities: two Ulster constables, a reserve member of that force, and a young Belfast Catholic.) TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo reports on Ulster today, and how its people have learned to cope with terror, and even...