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...viruses for biological warfare. That may be why military prosecutors are now among the first lawmen in the country to see the AIDS virus as a weapon and its willful transmission as a crime. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., last week, Private First Class Adrian G. Morris Jr., a clerk-typist at the garrison headquarters, faced a court-martial on charges that include aggravated assault. Reason: Morris allegedly had sex with two soldiers, one male, one female, although he knew an Army screening had shown him to be an AIDS virus carrier...
...part of the team," Hall declared proudly at one point, and many members of the team were blinded to the reality of what they had done. Torn between her innocent insistence that "I was purely a typist, sir," and her determination to "protect" her boss's clandestine dealings with both Iran and the contras, Hall seemed unable to recognize wrongdoing. Even after telling the committee how she had shredded documents, Hall insisted, "I don't use the word cover-up." Her euphemism was that "I was in a protective mode...
...this book is also a postscript to Andrei's memoirs. I was their initiator and, later, typist, editor and nursemaid. I had to do everything as the nursemaid -- to make sure the manuscript survived and became a book and reached its readers -- and to tell that story alone would call for another volume of memoirs or perhaps a mystery book; but the time for that has not come...
Andryusha worked on his memoirs in Gorky, periodically rewriting sections. Not because of the author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes...
...part of a $75,000 experiment that may determine how the courtroom of the future will be set up. Says Jay Suddreth, president-elect of the National Shorthand Reporters Association, which is sponsoring the test: "Court reporters without computer-aided transcription (CAT) generally dictate their notes to a typist, who then types out the transcript. By linking the court reporters to a computer, we can put such waste and redundancy behind...