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...plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles apart headed in opposite directions. At first, the Soviets reportedly referred to the Korean jet as an RC-135. Relays of fighters-ten in all, according to Ogar-were sent aloft to intercept the wayward plane; it evidently took them...
Piecing together the scam, the investigators speculate that the scenario unfolded this way: Rignola and Farriel let Granberg off the boat shortly after they left shore, where he was picked up by his wife and driven to the airport to board a flight to London, using his brother's passport. He had friends and contacts in London, where he sometimes used his brother's name and sometimes used the name James Kelly. Six months later, Judy Granberg met her husband in London and stayed with him at an elegant hotel. Then Granberg, investigators believe, returned to New York...
...wrists. Alex was a charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...
...British team confirmed the multi-step cancer scenario by showing that a particular oncogene caused a tumor in hamster cells only if they had first been exposed to a carcinogenic chemical. The chemical alone and the oncogene alone did not cause cancer; both were necessary. While the discovery has no immediate implication for treatment of cancer, it helps explain why the disease develops slowly and why its incidence rises with age. "Even if one part of the process occurs," says Weinberg, "you might not have the second step for another 20 years...
Whatever the real scenario, Meselson emphasizes, right now he sees the situation as "the worst of both worlds." If the allegations are wrong, the U.S. is simply delaying the day it can help the people of Southeast Asia solve their natural problems, as well being embarrassed by being wrong. If the allegations are correct--as the State Department believes--then a serious violation of two international agreements will have been perpetrated (not only the 1972 treaty, but also the 1925 Geneva Protocol). Substantiated allegations, many observers believe, call into question the whole idea of arms control, as well...