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...another favorite KGB cover. European intelligence experts estimate that 105 to 135 KGB agents are assigned to the U.N. in Europe. One is Alexander Benyaminov, appointed in 1976 to the data processing section of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a post that puts him in contact with those who possess nuclear secrets. Often the Soviet ambassador to a country is a full-fledged KGB agent. In Greece, he is Ivan Udaltsov, who, while serving as counselor at the Soviet embassy in Prague, helped to crush the Czech reform regime of Alexander Dubcek in 1968. Three months after he arrived...
...great rival Communist powers-the Soviet Union and China-each possess imposing oil reserves that are bound to become important factors in the world's struggle to avert a full-fledged energy crisis. Yet because both nations are so secretive, outsiders have had trouble analyzing their true capabilities or intentions. Some Western experts fear that the looming international competition for available supplies could lead to political and perhaps even military confrontations...
...doctors found the substance of equal use. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household wrote in 1890 that he had prescribed cannabis for 30 years and considered it "one of the most valuable medicines we possess." (Did the otherwise straitlaced Queen, a joint dangling from her stiff upper lip, know something we don't know...
...these new music makers like to think they are keeping the spirit of the old MGM musicals like The Wizard of Oz. "One of the things that made an MGM musical work," says Edwards, "was that they created towns filled with happy people who happened to possess musical skills. That fantasy still endures...
...event, I decided to give equal time to some of the people toward whom I've been accused of being unfair. I though that if given the same forum I possess, they would let you know the real Michael K. Savit. Here, then, are a trio of guest columns...