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...their main motivation." After grilling Lamont-Havers, one committee member, Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) emerged from the conference room to tell reporters that the ultimate victims in the Hoechst case may be American taxpayers who have indirectly supported fundamental research that will now benefit foreign investors--a "technology leak," as one of his aides later called...
...incision of about six to eight inches, the doctors made a careful inspection to see if the twisting bullet had damaged any major blood vessels or organs. There was special concern that it might have hit the pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that can dissolve tissue and, if they leak out, cause severe inflammation. Fortunately that vital organ escaped damage. Then the doctors ran their gloved hands along the entire 20-ft. length of the small intestine and the 5 ft. of large intestine. Typically this inch-by-inch examination is repeated two or three times to make certain...
...been recuperating smoothly from a bullet wound in the head, suddenly turned groggy last week; doctors discovered that a buildup of air was pressuring his damaged brain. Dr. Arthur Kobrine first drained the air and then, in an operation that lasted 5½ hours, found the source of the leak-a hole in the membrane covering the brain near the sinuses-and patched it with muscle tissue from Brady's temple. By week's end Brady was alert and talking again, though Dr. Dennis O'Leary, spokesman for George Washington University Hospital, cautioned that it would...
Henry Kissinger raised the threat of resignation to real art. In 1971, when a leak of secret transcripts disclosed the White House "tilt" toward Pakistan (in its war with India over independence for Bangladesh), Kissinger was mortified. He never intended to resign, but he sent the signals out through his elaborate network of foreign policy friends. A resounding vote of confidence came quietly back. It shored him up spiritually and also within Nixon's White House...
...officials said government investigators did not find the leakage significant enough to warrant shutting the equipment down, but Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines state, "Transformers containing PCBs can be used as long as they perform their intended function and do not leak PCBs into the environment...