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Administration sources insist, however, that none of the diseases presently being smuggled into Iran are lethal. "If the cast of Hostage were to die now," says Dr. Peter Born, White House aide-de-camp, "President Carter's image would suffer drastically. It's important for the public to understand that the Carter Administration is doing everything possible to secure the safe--if unhealthy--release of those Americans...
...symptoms strongly resembled those of pulmonary anthrax, which is far more deadly than intestinal anthrax. Also, Sverdlovsk is the site of a military facility that Western intelligence agencies have suspected of developing biological warfare weapons. Had something gone wrong during an experiment, accidentally releasing lethal spores into the atmosphere? The U.S. challenged the Soviet Union in March, seeking to determine whether the Sverdlovsk incident was a violation of the 119-nation Biological Weapons Convention. That treaty prohibits the production and stockpiling of killer bacteria, such as those that cause pulmonary anthrax, for military purposes. The Soviets stuck to their story...
...Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, the Israeli Prime Minister found himself under unprecedented attack from both the left and right factions of his conservative Likud coalition. His room for maneuver was so restricted he was not even able to reshuffle his Cabinet and replace Weizman for fear of provoking a lethal defection by one side or the other. It appeared that the only way to keep his government from capsizing might be to assume the Defense Ministry portfolio himself. Worst of all, the crisis further jeopardized the already stalled negotiations with Egypt over Palestinian autonomy-though at week...
...coup was virtually bloodless; nevertheless, it turned the capital, Kampala, into a ghost town of deserted streets and shuttered houses, as citizens, still smarting from Amin's lethal rule, played it safe and stayed indoors. It was small comfort that the takeover was apparently masterminded by a former leader of the anti-Amin resistance: Paulo Muwanga, 56, Binaisa's Labor Minister and chairman of the six-member military commission of the Uganda National Liberation Front, which was formed in 1979 to topple Amin...
Clearly, Michael Arlen specializes in the give-them-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves thing. As a writer for The New Yorker, he has had good models, not the least of which was the subtly lethal journalism of Lillian Ross, who once dismantled Hollywood with her classic Picture. Arlen has more benign intentions toward Madison Avenue. Throughout, he keeps a civil tongue in his cheek; Thirty Seconds derives its effects from self-revealing chatter and serendipitous comedy. A production conference deals with choosing among camels, llamas and kangaroos. Then comes the grandmother problem. "It seems to me," says one executive...