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...make nuclear and chemical weapons. Nunn, ranking minority member of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, told the New York Times that before the deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo last March, the Japanese group had recruited two Russian nuclear scientists and tried to buy a $500,000 laser system that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks and did purchase land in Australia where it tested batches of the deadly sarin nerve gas on sheep...
...Graf, she never lost a set, as her two-handed backhands and forehands kept the other women cornered. The only time she did not look particularly sharp was in the first set of her quarterfinal match with talented Czech Jana Novotna, but Seles erased two set points with a laser return of service and a dazzling forehand volley. "Well, I was just so mad at myself," she said of the first shot, "I just, wow, hit it." Reminded of the second shot, she said, "Very nice. Very good point. That one also. Yes, yes, yes, forgot that one." Peter Balestieri...
...After I pickle [fire] the bomb off, I don't have to worry about watching the flir [forward-looking infrared sys tem ] because I can watch for triple-A [anti-aircraft artillery] and other things as my whizzo [weapons system officer] holds the laser on the target all the way in." U.S. Marine Captain Erik Swenson, speaking here, is the pilot of an F/A-18 Hornet (call sign: "Lumpy"), and he could hardly be more different from a Sarajevo shopkeeper. But he and Ferid Durakovic are intimately linked. Starting last Wednesday morning, Captain Swenson-in his first taste of combat...
There is nothing, however, to stop a surgeon from shopping around for the most accommodating review board. A case in point is that of Dr. Akio Wakabayashi and the laser surgery he developed. He was at the University of California at Irvine in 1989 when he experimented with a new treatment for clearing the airways of emphysema victims. Seven of his first 56 patients developed fatal complications. Some of his colleagues suspect that the Irvine review board found the numbers worrisome; Wakabayashi claims the university "couldn't buy the equipment I needed." Whatever the reason, he transferred to Chapman General...
...Hughes' extraordinary story on the vicious, mindless congressional attempts to do in the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. Hughes marshals the arguments with rare pellucidity and a cool passion that cuts like a laser. There's a wonderful line in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation when Ouisa says to Paul, who has lost the only copy of his graduation thesis to a mugger, "I hope your mugger reads every word [of it]." I hope the muggers of the arts and humanities read...