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Unidentified assassins gunned down the Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East...
...alone is Molecular Genetics (1983 revenues: $6.9 million). Founded by two University of Minnesota professors five years ago, it has limited entangling alliances by searching for products it can develop by itself. In December it introduced in the U.S. a treatment for scours, an often fatal diarrheal infection in newborn calves. Some 25,000 doses of the substance have already been ordered, and the firm expects that it will generate sales of more than $1 million during the first three months of 1984. Says Company President and Co-Founder Franklin Pass: "This could be the second largest medicine...
...their sights much higher. The basic plot-Rebel Without a Cause crossed with the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids, let's put the show on right here!"-is buttressed with motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. That is a lot of weight for a slender teen pic to carry, and this one sinks under the load...
DIED. Henry S. Kaplan, 65, Stanford University radiologist and co-inventor of the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere, which became the cornerstone of modern radiation therapy and helped transform once fatal Hodgkin's disease, for example, into a relatively curable ailment; of lung cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. In 1955 the Chicago-born Kaplan collaborated with Edward Ginzton in developing a 6-million-volt accelerator at the Stanford Medical Center, then in San Francisco. The device smashed atoms to produce high-dosage radiation that could be directed at various forms of cancer with much greater accuracy...
...this year of Ivy mediocrity--one that now has the first and last place teams separated by only two games--Harvard's failure to break away from the pack could prove fatal by the season...