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Members of Congress serving on committees that keep an eye on the CIA have long faced a tricky challenge. Short of employing truth serum or lie detectors, how can they know when officials of an agency trained in the art of deception are dissembling? One such CIA watcher on the House Intelligence Committee swears he discovered an infallible method...
...motives. A man was kidnaped one night by los muchachos (the boys), as the guerrillas are known, and ordered to drive them five miles in his truck. When he returned to Osicala at dawn, he told his neighbors that the rebels had given him a shot of a mysterious serum so that he would not remember anything. During a guerrilla attack in January, two guerrillas were killed outside a house in the village. Because of the intense fighting, says one resident, they were buried in the garden rather than the village cemetery. The truth? A sign of fear? A sign...
...sense in which we should be grate ful that Stockman had that capacity. For one thing, idealistic public officials appear infrequently enough to learn our respect regardless of their political viewpoint. But more importantly, Stockman's frustration contributed to his candor; in his case disillusionment was like a truth serum. And that candor, as Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan) noted, was refreshing, particularly so for what it revealed about the legislative process...
...issues are also popular. Cheyenne Resources is up 738% since its February offering at $1 a share, and Saxon Oil has jumped to $35.75, an increase of 43%, just since Thanksgiving. Other winners are medical technology companies such as Genentech or Gamma Biologicals, which makes a serum for determining blood type. It closed last week at $15.12, up 163% from the offering price...
...Center in Philadelphia identified a protein from the hepatitis B virus in the blood of an Australian aborigine. Researchers soon found that the protein, dubbed Australia antigen, existed in large quantities in the blood of carriers. Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University then discovered that when infected blood serum is boiled, the virus is killed but the antigen remains able to induce production of the antibodies that prevent the illness. The experimental vaccine was developed by Virologist Maurice Hilleman of the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. Should no hitches develop, the first hepatitis B vaccine may become commercially available...