Word: devlin
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...world politics," says Peck. "He didn't really have time to develop an ideology or a message." The fact that Lumumba could be effective at all was something of a miracle. By the time of independence, the Belgians had allowed only 17 Congolese to obtain a university education. Larry Devlin, a CIA agent in the Congo at the time, agrees with Michela Wrong that Lumumba tried to use the Russians but was never really a communist. "Poor Lumumba. He was no communist," said Devlin. "He was just a poor jerk who thought 'I can use these people.' I'd seen...
...Michela Wrong points out that Lumumba had been considered so dangerous by Washington that President Eisenhower actually signed off on an assassination plot. The idea was to slip him a poison that would mimic a fatal local disease. Devlin told Wrong that he kept the poison in his desk for several months and then dumped it in the river. In the end it wasn't necessary...
...that we have a fifth cook, that makes things a lot easier. People were running everywhere before, so it is nice now," says chef Paul M. Devlin...
...always on the same page now. It's good because everyone has an idea of what's going on, what the problems are, and what makes things better," Devlin says...
...supersalmon escaped into the wild. One of the few studies done by U.S. researchers found a lower survival rate for eggs produced by transgenic fish. Still other studies show that despite their name, so-called superfish have diminished muscle structure and swimming performance. Says Canadian fish geneticist Robert Devlin: "Science, at the moment, is unable to give us a reliable assessment of risk...