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DIED. Al Capp, 70, sardonic cartoonist who gained fame and wealth with his Li'l Abner comic strip; in Cambridge, Mass, (see PRESS...
...throbbed, irregularity plagued him. Still, he made no progress. On April 24, at 2:37 p.m., inspiration attacked. While thumbing through a Robert Ludlum novel, it hit him--characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because, after all, they were his friends. He kept Edward Zlin, because...
Liddy summarized: "The CIA suspects Greg is linked to the Soviets. Rick, armed with documents stolen from Greg's safe, sets out to prove the connection. He shrewdly manipulates some multinational stock holdings and prepares to take over Greg's company. Greg kidnaps T'sa Li and runs her finger through a meat grinder. T'ang Li rescues his sister. Greg escapes by plane but Rick, piloting his private Messerschmitt, knocks him out of the sky in a dogfight over Manhattan...
According to a Soviet participant, Brezhnev told Carter that the Kremlin, much like the hawks in the U.S. Senate, is not entirely happy with all of SALT li's provisions, but that the treaty reflects "everything that is realistically obtainable at the present moment." On the whole, he said, it is "a mutually acceptable balance of interests." He reaffirmed the Soviet commitment to détente, saying, "It is impossible for one of us to push the other off the surface of the earth or for one of us to remodel the other...
...place, unless it somehow produces its own internal narcotics. Acting on just such a premise, Pharmacologists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz at Scotland's University of Aberdeen in 1975 isolated two peptides from the brains of pigs. Remarkably, the peptides seemed to be natural opiates. Hormonologist Choh Hao Li of the University of California in San Francisco had already discovered similar molecules in the pituitary glands of camels, animals whose insensitivity to pain had long intrigued scientists. Hughes and Kosterlitz dubbed the molecules enkephalins (from the Greek word for head). Subsequently, scientists identified kindred painkilling molecules that they called...