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...decided Amin had to go. Preferably quietly-but certainly dead. At first, we-that is, the KGB-were given the job. We had an officer, an illegal who passed as an Afghan and had for some time been one of Amin's personal cooks. He was ordered to poison Amin. But Amin was as careful as any of the Borgias. He kept switching his food and drink as if he expected to be poisoned. The illegal's nerves began to fray as his attempts...
Pain relievers and other over-the-counter medicines are a major target of the Tylenol killer's admirers. Rat poison was discovered in an Anacin capsule in Grand Junction, Colo. Two people suffered fever and nausea after taking Anacin in St. Albans, Vt. In Mills, Wyo., Brian Leyba, 25, suffered acid burns after using Sinex nasal spray, and in Grand Junction, Larry Tingley, 38, a patient at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, is being treated for corneal burns caused by hydrochloric acid in Visine eye drops...
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...Federal Government sharply curtailed a program to poison the ubiquitous barking little rodents because the toxic agents were also killing other animals. As a result, the prairie dogs are proliferating. In South Dakota (pop. 690,000), there are believed to be 15 times as many prairie dogs as people. Ranchers have filed suit to force Washington to resume its tough anti-prairie dog policies. Even environmental groups like the Sierra Club admit that there is a need for at least a limited control effort...