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...remained out of touch, and Emanuela out of sight. The abductors' approach has been decidedly bizarre. After Agca told reporters that he was happy to remain in jail, his apparent benefactors issued an almost incoherent communique dismissing his statement as "irrelevant." They have consistently refused to provide conclusive proof that Emanuela, the daughter of a Vatican City messenger, is still alive. In addition, they have addressed most of their demands to the Vatican even though, as one official there conceded, the Holy See "is powerless to meet their demands." Having "sincerely pardoned" Agca after the shooting, the Pope...
...early June. scholars around the world began to gain access to 29 years-old Gerd Faltings proof confirming the Mordell conjecture--originally published in 1929 paper--which suggested that the majority of polynomial equations have only a finite number of rational solutions...
Faltings' manuscript is only 40 pages, which according to Artin, is unusually concise for a through mathematical proof. As a result the mathematicians had to go back to Faltings' original sources to double check the professor's work. But after the meetings, all the mathematicians agreed that Faltings' work is "strikingly foolproof." David Kazhdan, Professor of Mathematics said last week...
That is the crux of the matter in his view: a lack of conclusive proof for the charges against the Russians. Three conditions, he believes, must be met if one wants to prove chemical warfare--consistent, specific reports from refugees; a definite, clear idea of what chemical is being used; and the discovery of a spent or unspent munitions containing the chemical agent involved. Seven years after reports started filtering into the West that biochemical weapons may be in use in Asia. Meselson says, none of these conditions have been filled to his satisfaction--none, he emphasizes...
Actually, while acknowledging that proof of chemical warfare would make it difficult to conclude arms control agreements, Meselson expresses skepticism with the assumptions of this last, commonly held view. "You don't conclude agreements with Russia because you trust the Russians. That's not the way you make these agreements. You do it because you can detect violations," he says. "The converse of that argument is that if only the Russians are innocent of this we can trust them? That's not the way to do treaties. It never was. It never is, It's a phony argument. That...