Word: naomi
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Painful Death. By way of background, Colby revealed that the agency in 1952 began a supersecret research program, code-named M.K. Naomi, partly to find countermeasures to chemical and biological weapons that might be used by the Russian KGB. Former CIA Director Richard Helms reported that a KGB agent used poison darts and poison spray to assassinate two Ukrainian liberation leaders in West Germany. The CIA also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death...
Miriam is at least better off than Naomi in "Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary," whose sense of abandonment leads her to forsake her love for languages and turn to the field of psychiatry, where people are transformed into cases. At home in faceless hospital corridors, she prescribes electroshock therapy and hides her own hurt in stony silence...
...While Naomi's strategy is self-destructive, Sut-On in "Dragon Lady" lashes out at others instead. A Chinese girl living near Saigon, Sut-On is unable to define a place for herself in either French or Vietnamese society so she becomes the Dragon Lady, exorcising her not-belonging through murder. "If her heart is remote," Kaplan writes, "she'd be the last one to know...
Consumers are planning to spend their rebates dutifully. "I guess we'll spend it, since that's what the President wants us to do," said Mrs. Naomi Stout, a housewife who lives in Newark, Del. John DeFazio, president of a steelworkers local in Pittsburgh, thinks that most of his fellow union members will use the money to pay off debts "because things haven't stabilized enough to go on a buying spree...
Died. "Mama" Cass Elliot, 33, gargantuan, silvery-voiced pop-rock singer; after choking on a ham sandwich; in London. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Mama Cass sang with a few unmemorable Greenwich Village folk groups in the early 1960s before contributing her gutsy contralto to the Mamas and the Papas, the quartet that created such euphonious superhits as Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'. When the group broke up in 1968, the Earth Motherly (5 ft. 5 in., as much as 250 Ibs.) Elliot embarked on a successful solo career. More than 300 people, including such luminaries as Carol...