Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first a post-mortem study yielded no poison. But what doctors did find under Markov's skin was a tiny platinum-iridium pellet, 1.7 mm in diameter, with two holes, each a mere .4 mm wide, drilled in at right angles. The holes could have contained a toxic substance, either bacterial or chemical?quite possibly not traceable...
When the discovery of the pellet was made public, Vladimir Kostov, another Bulgarian defector and a friend of Markov's, reported a similar incident in Paris. Three weeks earlier as he left the Etoile Metro station, he too had felt a stinging pain. He was ill for a few days, but did not report the incident to the police. When he did so, doctors found a pellet, identical to the one in Markov's thigh, buried in Rostov's back...
There was another reason to suspect Sofia. If Markov had in fact been jabbed by a poison-tipped or poison-firing umbrella?or had been shot with a pellet gun by a man holding an umbrella?only a security service would probably have such sophisticated gadgetry at hand. Today's secret agents and hit men have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting...
...witness to the agony of cancer, I am bewildered that Laetrile is banned [June 20]. Can it not be administered in conjunction with our presently prescribed treatments? What harm is one more pellet in our already shotgun approach to curing cancer...
Other groups of scientists are placing their bets on a different technique: "inertial confinement." This process involves the high-power laser or electron-beam bombardment of tiny pellets crammed with deuterium and tritium. The sudden application of the energetic beams causes instant vaporization, or boiling away, of the outer surface of the sphere. As the pellet coating flies outward, it pushes back against the deuterium and tritium, compressing and heating the mixture. If the impinging beams are energetic enough, the effect will be so great that the nuclei will fuse, releasing energy like a miniature H-bomb. Among others, researchers...