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...haven't decided on the exact procedure yet. We're looking for the most efficient, most fair...
Like many Western governments, France was curious about the exact state of Leonid Brezhnev's health during his final years. Marenches found an ingenious way to get information. "He was staying at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit," the count recalls. "Our people rented the suite under his and dismantled all the plumbing. They intercepted his toilet flushings and sent the samples to Paris for analysis." This unpleasant bit of trade craft revealed that Brezhnev, a vodka lover, had suffered severe liver damage. "The old boy didn't last long after that," says the count, raising...
...uses a motorized scooter instead of walking long distances, calls this "babying the motor neurons." His clinic uses sophisticated electromyography equipment that charts the activity of muscle and nerve cells in order to design exercise regimens tailored to each patient's particular weaknesses. The approach is almost the exact opposite of "use it or lose it." Says Dr. Jacquelin Perry, director of the pathokinesiology center at the Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in California: "By decreasing the demand on these overworked neurons, we can extend their life...
Whether prosecutors will succeed in proving links to Tehran officials is less certain, however. A police officer has testified that a top aide of Chancellor Helmut Kohl ordered a key report to be removed from the evidence file. The exact contents of the report are unclear, but the testimony has deepened suspicions that Iran has been pressuring the German government to limit the Mykonos case to keep intelligence matters out. However, German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer, the country's main liaison with Iran, has repeatedly denied that Tehran has exerted any undue influence or that the missing report contains crucial...
...Exact plans for Disney's America are in a state of evolution. At first they included a water adventure with Lewis and Clark through pristine America, a factory town with a high-speed ride around a vat of molten steel, a county fair with a 60-ft.-high Ferris wheel, a Civil War fort and simulated skirmishes, old trains, a working farm and a Victory field where kids could parachute from a plane and operate tanks. These concepts are being reworked, but Disney is secretive on just...