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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bonn's counterintelligence assumed that Rödiger and her swain had fled to East Germany, as a number of other unmarried secretaries have recently done. Three of the women were employed by officials of the Christian Democratic Union, while a fourth worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels. All were apparently ensnared by a now familiar East German gambit: assigning handsome male Communist agents to lure well-placed secretaries into love-and spying...
...rash of espionage cases followed defection to the West of Lieut. Werner Stiller, a key officer in East Berlin's state security apparatus. Stiller, who was actually a West German agent, identified a number of East German spies working in West Germany. Since his defection, 14 suspects have been arrested, and 18 others have escaped to the East...
...highly inflationary economy, managers have no sound means of estimating the real cost of a long-term project, no way of knowing whether profits will cover that cost. So they delay or abandon investment projects that seem marginal or chancy. Instead, they put the company money into a smaller number of investments that seem to be sure winners-or into buying out existing companies rather than opening new branches...
Researchers know that excessive doses of mood-elevating amphetamines, which greatly increase the amount of dopamine in the brain, can bring on psychotic symptoms identical to those of schizophrenia. Recent studies also have indicated that schizophrenics have 50% more dopamine in their brains than non-schizophrenics, and twice the number of dopamine receptors, the sites where the chemical locks into the central nervous system. One line of thinking is that some people are born with high dopamine levels, but that somehow an "environmental trigger," perhaps some life crisis, sets the stage for schizophrenia. But a growing opinion is that...
...Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research a generation ago, more than 120 students competed for nine openings. "Now," he says, they're lucky to get twelve applicants for roughly the same number of spots...