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Dart Guns. Six-tenths of a milligram of saxitoxin can kill an adult, often within an hour, by blocking the transmission of impulses in the nervous system-just as in Fleming's account. Saxitoxin is produced by a single-cell sea creature that flourishes during the warmest months. Oysters, clams and mussels that eat the organism are poisonous to humans, which is why in some areas such seafood is not harvested in summer. By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish. Hence in Japan...
...confrontation countries" are pinning their hopes-for the time being at least-on Henry Kissinger's gradual personal diplomacy. The alternative is full-scale negotiations at Geneva involving the Soviet Union and probably the Palestine Liberation Organization as well. Even Syria, one of Moscow's warmest Arab allies, is willing to let Kissinger negotiate, and has suggested for the first time a demilitarized border. Israel will not be pressured, but evidently is prepared to follow Kissinger's proposals, even to Geneva if necessary...
...national security adviser, Rockefeller told him in a letter that he was arranging a $50,000 gift "as a token of my friendship and my appreciation for the work you have done in service to the people of this country. It comes from Happy and me, with our warmest best wishes." Kissinger consulted White...
...Ronald Ziegler, the terHorst appointment marked what seemed like the beginning of a new era of presidential accessibility and candor. Ford and terHorst promised a "completely open" White House, and the press generally responded by making the new President's first heady weeks in office one of the warmest such interludes on record...
...would like a few words with you, Jim, and the Prime Minister." Gerald Ford then spent ten minutes complimenting Britain's efforts to contain the Cyprus situation and emphasizing his commitment to continuity in U.S. foreign policy. Whitehall officials later happily declared Anglo-American relations to be the warmest since the early 1960s, when Harold Macmillan's and John Kennedy's rambling phone conversations added "Jack-Mac" talks to the vocabulary of transatlantic diplomacy...