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...Spain by the party in order to expose German and Italian intervention for Franco in the civil war. He was arrested by the Falangists and subsequently spent three months in solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Seville. From that experience came a book, Spanish Testament, and the germ of an idea for his masterpiece, Darkness at Noon...
...dangers associated with the project are expected to be minimized by conducting the experiments in secure laboratories, originally designed for use in germ-warfare testing at Fort Detrick in Frederick. Md Additionally, the strain of E. coli being used in the research is a special breed which does not survive well outside a laboratory...
...more," reported one U.S. congressional staff member wryly after a visit. Guatemalans stroll the capital's streets again, night clubs are full and handguns are much less evident than before the March coup. Rios Montt has dismantled police and army death squads and put the national police chief, Germán Chupina, under house ar rest. He has also threatened that former Interior Minister Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz and other members of the old regime who have fled the country will be arrested if they return. In another attempt to under cut the guerrillas, the President has declared a broad...
Wherever they eat, executives claim that the business breakfast is more productive than a long, and often liquid, lunch. While traditional brunch beverages like Bloody Marys and screwdrivers are rare, the corporate breakfast need not be spartan. Some executives prefer such healthy dishes as wheat germ and yogurt, but others indulge in eggs Benedict or Viennese crepes. In Minneapolis kippered herring and whitefish are favorites...
...offer fail-safe protection. As they toil at erecting new electronic fences around computers, astute crooks are just as busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this...