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GUERRILLA by WALTER LAQUEUR 462 pages. Little, Brown...
Many question why the U.S. should be so eager to help the Russians catch up economically and technically. European critics contend that American corporations have been pressured by the Nixon Administration to give invaluable information to the Russians. "It was a giveaway of technology," says Walter Laqueur, director of London's Institute of Contemporary History. "It induced American industrialists to make their technology available for nothing or for a symbolic price. I do not mean agriculture or pharmacology either. I mean things that could be helpful to the [Soviet] army and space programs...
...minute's fuel remained in the plane's tanks. On the ground, the Arabs were adamant that the 727 be refueled for the flight to Libya, and announced that plane and occupants would be blown up unless it was done. Unable to contact his foreign office, Kurt Laqueur, Bonn's consul general in Zagreb, agreed to the refueling. "I didn't want to play with the lives of the passengers," he explained later...
...should scuttle all attempts at detente and arms control to protest the Russians' behavior. To be sure, an evenhanded strengthening of NATO's conventional defenses is in order, and the U.S. must insist on foolproof surveillance clauses in any nuclear-arms-reduction treaty. London Historian Walter Laqueur points out: "As Soviet foreign policy becomes less Communist in character, it also becomes less predictable and rational. The ideological appeal of Soviet Communism no longer exists, but the Soviet Union still has built-in drives toward expansion...
...Until recently the two known male hormones were androsterone, first obtained by Butenandt of Germany, and a much more powerful one called testosterone, isolated by Laqueur of The Netherlands. In 1934-35 both of these were synthesized by Ruzicka of Switzerland. Last week Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associates of Pennsylvania State College announced isolation and synthesis of a third male hormone, secreted in the bodies of women...