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...word came from Mexico City: 'Torrijos is returning." On that signal, 14 truckloads of Guardsmen roared out of a garrison at outlying Tocumen Airport. Some fanned out over the country, others sped into Panama City and pulled up at the dingy, Victorian Guardia headquarters. After a bit of harmless shooting, Sanjur and Silvera were led off to jail...
THIS MEANINGLESS consensus, however, is not as harmless as it looks. It has, in fact, the potential to undercut anti-war sentiment in two significant ways. It vindicates and humanizes supporters of the administration: See, they say with a complacent shrug, we're not so bad. We, too, oppose barbarism...
Planting Fish. What could be done to clean up the mess? The mosquito abatement district switched from the persistent DDD to methyl parathion, a chemical that is effective against gnats but that deteriorates and becomes harmless in a short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings...
Many human beings convert only 1% of their cyclamate intake to CHA, and so minute a quantity might well be harmless. But for unknown reasons other, equally "normal" people convert as much as 40% to CHA; if they are heavy users of cyclamates, the resulting high dose of CHA might cause cancer or other diseases. Like countless other chemicals, cyclamates also cause breaks in the chromosomes of both man and animals, but the genetic significance of these breaks is not yet known...
...Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology puts those of us concerned with ending the war in Vietnam in a dilemma. We are aware of the fragmentation of the peace movement, and of the resolutions, slogans, tactics tried out in our desperation. Some strategies may be futile but harmless. But others may backfire. A call for immediate withdrawal will seem cavalier to some and callous to many; it is not a call for a cease-fire. Already the President is taking account of violent feeling among many civilians and some senior and junior officers that the fighting men are being betrayed...