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...hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs" sprinkle his speech), which makes it difficult to fathom his lingering bad-guy notoriety. But behind the affable grin lie eyes cold and calculating. Perhaps it is this paradox -- the genial great-grandfather and steely communist chieftain rolled into one -- that has made...
...unavoidable amount of uncertainty is built into every scientific investigation. To determine the risk of disease from trace amounts of dioxin, researchers had to assume that if it caused cancer in laboratory animals, then it could cause cancer in humans. In addition, because no one completely understands how toxins trigger cancer, scientists chose a mathematical model that assumes a linear relationship between the amount of toxin consumed and the incidence of malignancy. In other words, if a pound of dioxin caused cancer in 50 out of 100 subjects, then half a pound would trigger 25 cases...
After the Palestinian question, the hottest political issue in Kuwait concerns the right to vote. Until now, the franchise has been limited to male Kuwaitis who can trace their roots in the country to before 1920, a meager total of about 65,000 people, a figure that is less than 10% of the present Kuwaiti population...
...Lima, where a probe of B.C.C.I.'s stewardship of Peru's central-bank funds is under way, local investigators are trying to trace what happened to money in an aborted B.C.C.I.-brokered deal to sell French-made Mirage jet fighters to the impoverished nation. Sources in the clandestine arms trade say B.C.C.I. eventually sold the planes to Pakistan and India...
...most explosive growth in the late 1970s and mid-1980s, B.C.C.I. became a magnet for drug money, capital-flight money, tax-evading money and money from corrupt government officials. B.C.C.I. quickly gained a reputation as a bank that could move money anywhere and hide it without a trace. It was the bank that knew how to get around foreign-exchange rules and falsify letters of credit in support of smuggling. Among its alleged services...