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That's why ricin once enjoyed a certain cachet among international men of mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...
...would garner a "big fat zero" in the elections. Others, however, thought Rybkin's story plausible. Russian and Western observers with knowledge of the way the Russian security services work suggested privately that drugs could have been the cause of Rybkin's disorientation. Even a pro-Kremlin pundit, Sergei Markov, threw out the theoretical possibility that his disappearance may have been the work of rogue "middle-level members of the special [security] services." But no one could offer a plausible motive for kidnapping. Rybkin was never a threat to Putin's chances of re-election, but his allegations do underline...
...Ricin is already lodged in the memory of many older Britons. In 1978, in one of the more bizarre political killings of the cold war, Georgi Markov - a dissident Bulgarian writer and broadcaster living in London - died after being shot in his right thigh on Waterloo Bridge with an umbrella rigged to fire a minuscule pellet containing ricin. Now the Wood Green neighborhood finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda...
...following quotations have come from two different sources, one an unnamed presidential candidate (hint: I made the test as easy as I could without lowering the bar below the two party system), and the other a simple "babbler" computer program (CS-51 students might recognize this program as the Markov-based babbler of assignment 8). I allowed the program to use some general text from the congressional record so that it might "learn" the fine nuances of political rhetoric. And here, in no particular order, are the quotations (four quotes come from each source...
With a full complement of East bloc countries on hand for the first time in eight years, a bundle of Olympic records were set. Jozef Pribilinec of Czechoslovakia won the 20-km walk in 1:19:57, breaking the old record by more than 3 min. Mop-top Khristo Markov of Bulgaria hopped, skipped and soared to a triple-jump record of 57 ft. 9 1/2 in., while American favorite Willie Banks placed sixth. East Germany's Ulf Timmermann threw the shot put 73 ft. 8 3/4 in. for an Olympic record, and Randy Barnes of the U.S. placed second...