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...Michael Levi, a proliferation expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, says Khan himself is not a threat. As a private Pakistani citizen, he will not have the access to sensitive technology and facilities, and Levi believes the networks Khan once ran to trade nuclear secrets have largely been smashed. "He can't enable proliferation simply with the ideas in his head," says Levi...
...experts all agree that Khan's release is a terrible signal. "There are others in the Pakistani establishment who have access to sensitive materials, and we would have liked them to know that there would be consequences to any misuse," says Levi. "But Khan's release undermines any deterrent effect." (See pictures of A. Q. Khan's nuclear bazaar...
...Levi hopes that the Pakistani government will now persuade Khan to cooperate in investigations into his network. "The impact of what he did is still alive, we don't fully understand it," says Levi. The British government has already asked Pakistan to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Khan. Previous such requests went nowhere. Pakistan's foreign ministry has said it now considers the Khan affair a closed chapter...
...Levi Stubbs, 72, lead singer of The Four Tops, gave Motown its most urgent growl of machismo. The lyrics of Reach Out I'll Be There are meant to be consoling, but Stubbs' shouted "Just look ovah yo' shoulda" makes the singer sound like a stalker. In the movies he was the voice of Audrey II, the voracious plant ("Feed me!") that's really a Mean Green Mother From Outer Space in Little Shop of Horrors. Another Motown treasure, songwriter-producer Norman Whitfield (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, War), died...
Johnston, Levi •oil field job is quit by after questions are raised about eligibility of to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program without high school diploma...