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...pedigree is of more importance in the world of lab animals than it is in any royal family. When medical researchers try to unravel the secrets of the cell, essential to understanding cancer, they must be absolutely certain of the genetic "purity" of their test subjects. Thus the biological community was rocked last week by the news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma...
...Reagan transition, Fielding and Meese were responsible for reviewing the FBI background checks on all nominees. Fielding has now been instructed by White House Chief of Staff James Baker to prepare a report of his office's involvement. The White House is not alone in trying to unravel that mystery. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week asked the FBI for the records of all conversations between the bureau's agents and Reagan aides during the Secretary's confirmation hearings last year, while the House Judiciary Committee requested an account of the Administration...
...option, in the words of a State Department official, was "quiet encouragement." The best hope was that time would heal the wounds opened so brutally, that a rational appraisal of each country's best long-term interests would eventually prevail, and that the hard-won peace would not unravel. -By George Russell...
...first thing to unravel was Christo's ribbons. He said he could not tie the bows properly until next March, and sent instead drawings of what he had planned. Williams' play, And Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws, came in too short-no more than 45 or 50 minutes-and Executive Director Robert Herman, the operating head of the festival, had to switch to another new Williams work, A House Not Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write...
...city investigators accused him of working fewer hours than he claimed. Virgilio R. Gonzalez, 56, master locksmith, runs general discount store in Miami with his wife. Eugenic Martinez, 60, heads leasing department of Miami Chevrolet dealer. James McCord, 63, electronics expert whose letter to Judge John Sirica began to unravel coverup, runs small solar-energy firm in Fort Collins, Colo. Frank Sturgis, 57, self-styled "Communist fighter," sells videotapes in Miami. Claims "Watergate financially destroyed me." Plotted bizarre attempt by Cuban exiles to invade U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay last year and establish "free" Cuban government there. No invader...