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Nevertheless the question of bomb supplies was a sensitive issue. The Defense Department had admitted earlier this month that it had to buy back 5,570 bombs sold in 1964 as surplus to a German firm that planned to extract the nitrates for fertilizer. The bombs were sold for $1.70 each and repurchased for $21 apiece-a bargain, by Pentagon reasoning, since they now cost around $400 apiece to make...
There, Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and his colleagues made an extract of the brain material and injected it into the brains of monkeys and a two-year-old chimpanzee named Georgette. Nothing happened to the monkeys, and for 20 months Georgette kept on growing like a normal chimp. Then, last May, Georgette became apathetic and lethargic. Her lower lip drooped, and she shivered at the slightest chill. Soon, she was staggering and stumbling as she walked; if she reached for a banana, she missed it. When she could hardly move her limbs and screamed at the gentlest touch, the researchers...
...airplanes to Karachi -- planes which the Indian, assumed could only be used against themselves. When Galbraith proposed that he inform the Indian government that there were only twelve planes involved the State Department refused. Finally -- "more or less by physical violence," he later said -- he was able to extract permission from Washington to communicate the number of planes to Nehru. "Parliament assembled a week or two ago," he wrote me toward the end of August, "and during the recess two things had happened: We had committed a half billion in aid to India and the twelve F-104 planes...
...that end, the President hopes to hustle both men off to the isolated acres of the LBJ Ranch. There, without retinues of advisers, Johnson hopes to apply his inimitable techniques of suasion to extract from his visitors a reasonable quid...
...Fifth Amendment bars the use of any confession that police extract from a suspect by brutality. Indeed, it bars any conceivable kind of coercion, including the most subtle threats or promises. But the point where such coercion starts is often difficult to define. As a result, the FBI, which gathers evidence for federal courts in which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds...