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Even as the SALT talks inch toward the elusive goal of limiting the arms race, weapons designers are creating ever newer generations of lethal hardware...
...epidemic. It also suspects there may be as many as 2,000 undetected cases a year. Though scientists believe that the culprit is a slow-growing, rod-shaped (as yet unnamed) bacterium, they do not know where it lives in nature, how it spreads or why it is so lethal. Only one thing seems sure. The bug was almost certainly around, even if misdiagnosed, long before the Legionnaires gathered for their ill-fated convention in Philadelphia...
Jimmy Carter walked over to a shelf in the White House last week and took down a plastic model of lethal U.S. and Soviet missiles; the Russian rockets were painted a sinister dark gray, the American ones good-guy white. Built to scale, the gray weapons dwarfed the white missiles, reflecting the Soviet Union's enormous advantage in rocket power. "Now you see why it's so important to limit these things," remarked the President with a smile as he presented the model to his guest, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
Though Rubin has given an unprecedented twist to the standard insanity plea, it is hardly the first time television has been accused of a lethal influence...
...goal of creating "socially committed documentaries that illuminate dark areas of our society." The producers persuaded McShane to tell her side of the story on camera. "My mother's been threatening to commit suicide for about 40 years," she explained. "It's a fantasy of hers." The lethal pills, she said, were a sort of "security" for her mother. As it happened, Mrs. Mott died of natural causes two weeks ago, ten days before the TV documentary went...