Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brave as Dienbienphu's defenders, is more Dienbienphus. "There is no substitute," MacArthur once said bitterly, "for victory." There is a more accurate and a more bitter way of stating it: there are dozens of alluring substitutes for the will to victory-and all of them are poison...
Last week, before a battery of microphones, cameras and newsmen in a U.S. Government office at Bonn, Captain Khokhlov, 31, told why he had failed to MVD CAPTAIN KHOKHLOV (WITH FAMILY) With poison and conscience. carry out his murder assignment. The stated reason was simple enough: "A conflict between Soviet intelligence, which tried to force me to commit criminal acts, and my conscience"; but the facts leading up to it made a story that sounded like a collaboration of Graham Greene and E. Phillips Oppenheim...
...cigarette cases were designed to fire when the lid was open, exposing what looked like a full pack of cigarettes. But the cigarettes were only butt-length tips; behind them was the mechanism designed to fire a charge of poison into a man's bloodstream by a mere squeeze of the finger at the point where the case was naturally held in proffering a smoke...
...merely seized on topics that failed to interest him. On the right subject, apparently, Panyushkin could be fascinating. "He is a clever and attractive person," said ex-MVDman Khokhlov in Bonn last week, "and he knows how to explain to you the right way to kill a man with poison bullets...
Basis of the program is a standing-operating-procedure manual, in loose-leaf so that it can be kept up to date with the growing number of poisons used in the modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will...