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...round conference table (Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov, 74, was the oldest), he was clearly first among equals in a group that exists largely to endorse Moscow's foreign policy and buffer the Soviet Union's western flank. The military bands and effusive bear hugs, however, could not mask the fact that the Sofia summit resulted in little more than Kremlin posturing in advance of Gorbachev's November meeting with Ronald Reagan in Geneva. A 15-page declaration blamed the U.S. for aggravating the arms race and piously declared that since its founding in 1955 as a counterforce to NATO...
...three packs of cigarettes a day. In 1982 Galbraith died, at 69. The official cause of death was heart disease and emphysema. He spent the last years of his life hooked up to an oxygen machine. According to his family's lawyers, Galbraith was once found removing the mask in order to take a quick puff. Galbraith's widow and three children are suing R.J. Reynolds for making a defective product...
...hired a private investigator to look into her past) but creepily devoted fans. She has had discussions with the FBI about her stalkers, one of whom sent flowers every day for six months. Coulter is terrified her address will become public, and she sometimes hides behind a surgical mask when she flies. Ever since two men threw pies at her at the University of Arizona last year, she has traveled with a bodyguard, a bourbon-drinking ex-cop who says, quite believably, that he can kill with his bare hands. Even so, Coulter told me her most persistent stalker...
...defense against hijacking would be the installation of a button in the cockpit that when pressed by the pilot would spray a harmless gas throughout the cabin, putting everyone to sleep. On landing, the good and the bad could be sorted out. All that is needed is a gas mask for the pilot. Helen Smith Far Hills, N.J. Accusing the Press...
...read with fascination about the Soviets doing eye surgery in an assembly-line fashion [MEDICINE, July 1]. However, I was surprised to notice in your photograph that one eye surgeon had his nose outside the sterile mask. I guess that person has three minutes to infect each patient. Richard C. Back Clemson...