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...nine or so who flew his coop as "fascists" and "criminals." He accused some of the defectors of an exotic miscellany of offenses. Offering nothing that authorities considered proof, Rajneesh asserted that there had been attempted poisonings of seven people, including Jefferson County District Attorney Michael Sullivan. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh ordered the attorney general to investigate, stating that "certain evidence, independent of the bare allegations coming from Rancho Rajneesh, tends to confirm that Mr. Sullivan was the subject of an assassination attempt" in 1982. Rajneesh also suggested that misdeeds at the commune were responsible for a 1984 outbreak...
...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...
Perhaps, but the hints are nonetheless alluring. During the second round of the Geneva talks last summer, Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov informally suggested that Moscow might be willing to cut its arsenal of missiles and bombers by as much as 40%, including for the first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element...
More than 200 FBI agents were involved in raids on the group in Puerto Rico and Boston just before Labor Day. Those captured included Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda-Rios, 52, the suspected mastermind of the Hartford robbery. But the FBI dragnet failed to find Victor Manuel Gerena, 27, a former wrestler accused of leading the robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname...
...Even so, William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, voiced the hope that Gorbachev's hint about accepting some research was a "beginning" and an "invitation to negotiation." Hyland's advice: when arms-control talks resume in Geneva next week, Chief U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman should "take (Soviet Delegation Chief Victor) Karpov aside and say he is intrigued and wants to know more about...