Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, were natural suspects because the Moro incident was strikingly similar, both in its cold-blooded sophistication and its implementation, to the abduction last September of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. One witness thought she heard a kidnaper speak in German , ''Achtung! Achtung!'' Another bystander was waved off by a terrorist who spoke with what sounded like heavily accented Italian. An additional element was the chilling professional precision exhibited by one of the killers. One bodyguard had managed...
...first stage of the experiment, NIH'S Malcolm Martin and Wallace Rowe will splice DNA from the polyoma virus (which causes tumors in mice but not in humans) into a specially engineered strain of the common bacteria Escherichia coli. The bacteria will be fed to or injected into mice and hamsters, which will then be examined to determine 1) if the bacteria multiply into progeny that also contain the viral DNA, and 2) if the bacteria-carried viral DNA can cause tumors in the animals...
...treats the audience to an on-screen prostate examination and the spectacle of two women's heads being smashed together. The film's most persistent Freudian motif is a phallus fixation that borders on the pathological. Though Toback tries hard to emulate the expressionistic style of Director Martin Scorsese, Fingers never amounts to more than a flamboyantly neurotic drive-in movie...
...headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction. Noting the similarities to the kidnaping last September of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne and the military precision of the Moro operation, one official observed that "such a perfect crime means that it was accomplished with the skill of picked...
...Martin, dean of students at the Div School, said yesterday that to his knowledge no violent incidents have occurred at the library as a result of the notes. Martin added that he believes the library's security measure will make people more conscious of security at the Div School...