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...testing toxic substances 10,000 times more lethal than any other research laboratory in the city, said Edward Cyr, a member of Cambridge's 16- member scientific advisory board...
...avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build an airtight defense system. Arms-race foes naturally fear another round of nuclear one-upmanship as MIRVing is made more lethal by MARVing...
...practice "interim restraint" while groping for a compre- hensive arms-control agreement. Many arms-control advocates fear that Star Wars will lead to what military planners call breakout, when one side unilaterally declares itself no longer bound by past agreements and suddenly fields large numbers of new and more lethal weapons...
...that the contras will be in danger of extinction next year unless they receive more § arms. According to Washington, the Sandinistas are assembling up to a dozen Soviet-made Mi-24 Hind helicopters capable of flying some 200 m.p.h. and carrying air-to-surface missiles. To counter the lethal gunships, the rebels would need Redeye or SA-7 antiaircraft missiles. A member of the intelligence community points out that the FDN already has run out of ammunition for its grenade launchers, M-60 machine guns and antitank weapons, and must rely almost entirely on hand-held weapons. The possibility...
...England, a nurse at an undisclosed hospital became ill after pricking herself with a syringe containing blood drawn from an AIDS patient. For more than 20 days she suffered from the fiulike symptoms and fever that often characterize the early stage of the lethal disease. Though she appears to have recovered, her blood shows evidence of infection with the AIDS-related virus...