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SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
...statistical fact that heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to die of lung cancer than are nonsmokers has been known for years, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint the process by which smoking exerts its lethal effect. That the death rate from cancer of the bladder is more than three times as high for smokers as for nonsmokers has been recognized more recently, and it has seemed even more difficult to explain. Yet, ironically, it is the hard to explain bladder cancers that have backed up statistics by yielding the first biochemical evidence that smoking...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday defended use of U.S.-supplied tear and nausea gases by South Vietnamese troops. Responding to rising criticism, mainly from abroad, he said that we are not embarking on gas warfare in Vietnam, but added that non-lethal gases will continue to be used in riot control and unusual actions against Vietcong troops. Michael Stewart, Britain's Foreign Secretary, and a group of House Republicans were among those criticizing...
Massive overdoses of barbiturates were the technique, and it was often the nurses who gave the injections. Children were fed a treat as well as a treatment: poison mixed with marmalade. Patients who resisted had stomach tubes forced down their throats, or were given lethal enemas. But many were literally killed with kindness by the motherly defendants, who spoon-fed them, urging them cheerfully to take their medicine. "They obeyed me," recalled Margarete Tunkowski, 54, charged with 200 murders, "because I always performed my duty with love...
...north-coast town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...