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...arms control, Princeton's Robert G. Gilpin, a professor of international politics, worried that Carter was "exposing his hands too early and encouraging the Russians to probe how far they can go in extracting further concessions." Other experts noted that the Russians do not relish negotiating so openly and almost certainly will insist that their own positions be stated only in secrecy across the bargaining tables...
...commerce subcommittee headed by California Democrat John E. Moss announced it would open hearings into possible gas withholding in a week or two. Finally, President Carter let it be known that if evidence of impropriety turned up, he may direct Energy Adviser James Schlesinger to start a full-scale probe of gasmen's production policies...
...sooner said than Henry B. Gonzalez, the committee's new chairman, claimed that he had "new evidence" proving conspiracies in the two murders. Where was the proof? He could not say: it was secret. He also suggested that "sinister forces" were out to scuttle the probe. Who were they? FBI agents whom he could not name. Just such unsubstantiated allegations have been raising doubts about the shootings for years. The long struggle to clear up the Kennedy and King assassinations is still far from over...
First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...
Following the British lead, Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, the U.S. Naval Research Lab, and the University of Washington in Seattle have all started using neutron irradiation. But Fermilab has a special advantage: it delivers neutrons at higher energies and thus can probe deeper into the tumors...