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...turn, the family will produce witnesses who will contend that Silkwood had been too horrified by the contamination to have possibly caused it herself. The family concedes that it cannot prove who planted the poison, but suggests that someone was out to scare Silkwood-and had certainly succeeded. The Silkwood lawyers will also try to turn Kerr-McGee's argument against itself. If Silkwood could have slipped lethal quantities of plutonium out of the plant, they will ask the jury, does not that mean that any employee could do so? And would not that prove that the "highest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Poisoned by Plutonium | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...prisoners were served peanut butter sandwiches. Bario took one bite of his and threw the rest in the toilet. Moments later he was found in convulsions. He has been in a coma ever since. Initial tests revealed strychnine in his blood; subsequent ones did not. There was no poison found in his sandwich or in a white powder on the cell floor. His wife Joanne doubts the thoroughness of these tests, however. She was not told of the incident until two days later, when she came to the jail for a visit. Says she: "I was told then that Sandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Case of Agent Bario | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Federal officials hint that Bario may have saved an antidepressant drug prescribed by a psychiatrist and either overdosed or committed suicide. That drug did not show up in lab tests either, however. Who had a motive to poison him? Mafia members may have wanted revenge for his undercover work. Or it may have been some of the traffickers against whom Bario was moving, allegedly including high Latin American officials. Some DEA officials might also have had reason to want Bario dead, if his trial were to expose illegal acts by certain agents. Says his lawyer: "He had an abiding fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Case of Agent Bario | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...participated in the corruption, extortion, and violence that cemented his power. If Walter Reuther, organizing the United Auto Workers at the same time and in the same city as Hoffa, didn't need the Mafia and their kind of tactics then Hoffa didn't either. Hoffa chose his own poison...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...City (They got a crazy way of lovin' there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cradle of Rock | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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