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...submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever developing foolproof security. Says one: "If a man is dedicated enough to die for a cause, air-piracy laws and the threat of extradition are not likely to deter him, are they...
Unhealthy Atmosphere. The decision -from which Chief Justice Warren Burger dissented*-does not touch truly private clubs. But it may deter blatant discrimination in similar recreational centers, which number as many as 130 in the Virginia-Maryland suburbs alone...
...early 1930s, every cure has failed. DDT may kill birds as well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus). So far, the only solution has been to chop down and haul away infected trees, a process that prevents the disease from spreading to healthy elms...
...retains a nuclear arsenal big enough to deter potential enemies despite the elimination of the biological stocks. The President also made it absolutely clear that the restrictions on chemical weapons did not include CS gas-a stronger version of tear gas-or defoliants that are being used in Viet Nam. But the proscribing of germ warfare and the restated strictures on chemical warfare provide concrete evidence of America's strong desire to slow down the arms race. Together with the joint signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty by the U.S. and the Soviets (see THE WORLD), Nixon...
...next 2½ years she and Patrick gadded about Europe, and all the attention was almost, almost unbearable; in Italy, Raquel even took to toting a squirt gun to cool down ardent paparazzi who dared stick their heads in her Cadillac limousine. Nothing could deter the photographers, however. By February 1967, she and Pat decided it was time to seal the Curtwel merger. In Paris, bedecked in a crocheted minidress, Raquel took her marriage vows for the second time...