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...Laird Guttersen, 52, an ebullient, bigboned retired Air Force colonel, remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided...
Inevitably such experiences must come home. Laird Guttersen's blood pressure was so low after three months of torture, complicated by pneumonia, that parts of him lost all feeling when he remained still more than ten minutes. At night, instead of sleeping he used to lie in a feverish trance, shifting to stay alive, timing himself by the half-hour chimes of a distant clock. "When Laird came home we couldn't sleep in the same bed at first," remembers his wife Virginia, a frail, dark-blue-eyed wife who waited. "He shifted a quarter turn every five...
McLean, 64, who ranks with his friend Daniel K. Ludwig in both his reclusiveness and the boldness of his investments, was noncommunicative as usual about the purchase. "We're just buying a regular-going steamship company," he said, adding with the understatement of a shrewd Scottish laird, "I think it's a good deal for both sides...
...they reach an accord, it will have to be ratified by the Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...
...report is based largely on the supersecret proceedings of the Standing Consultative Commission in Geneva, which is a joint U.S.-Soviet grievance board for monitoring SALT I, and the National Security Council's Verification Panel. By making the information public, the Administration sought to refute Laird's charges, as well as those made by other SALT opponents. The chief points...