Word: poisoner
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...seemed to understand that, as Alfred Hitchcock showed in The Birds, the most deep-seated fears are engendered when the benign suddenly turns menacing. The saboteur had no explosives to rig, no bomb-sniffing dogs to elude, no metal detector to foil -- only some fruit and a little poison. And that was more than enough. Just two little grapes were found to have been injected with cyanide -- not enough, it turns out, to give a toddler a stomachache -- and the country was thrown into a panic...
...basic facts were eerily familiar. A North African nation stood accused of obtaining equipment from a European firm in order to build a poison-gas plant. Only this time the culprit is not U.S. antagonist Libya but good friend Egypt...
...same day the news broke, Krebs announced it had stopped deliveries to Egypt, following an order issued by the Swiss government on March 2. Krebs also said it believed the equipment was intended only for pharmaceutical production. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied that Egypt had any plans to make poison gas. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said. "We are against chemical weapons." The U.S. now faces a potential dilemma: how to stand by its strong opposition to chemical weapons without alienating a strategic ally...
...least at Winthrop House, (where food personnel told me that they frequently open up in the morning to find rats walking across the grill) the feeling is that the University's and the exterminator's control measures are far from adequate: "I don't know what poison the exterminator feeds them, but they just keep getting bigger." At Eliot House, the sentiment is that for some unexplained reason the rats have recently been "more active" than normal...
...noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...