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...normal cells. Teams at M.i.T. and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y., reported that they could induce cancer in normal rat cells only by inserting at least two types of oncogenes into the cells. "A single oncogene produced some changes, but not cancer," explained Molecular Biologist Robert Weinberg of M.I.T. "It took two genes acting cooperatively to produce a tumor. In other cases, it might take three or more...
...each day that it failed to release the documents, a penalty that could total $27.5 million by the time the grand jury disbands. In June, Marc Rich & Co. secretly sold its U.S. division to a group of the parent company's officers, all foreign nationals. U.S. Attorney Morris Weinberg called the maneuver an "egregious deception" designed to bolster the firm's claim of foreign immunity...
...When I turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." He said he was prepared "to stake my reputation" on their authenticity. Newsweek Consultant Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went to the same bank vault and reported that "my preliminary feeling was that they looked genuine." But he had reservations and said that much more study would be needed to be certain...
...guarantee Newsweek will regret what they did." By week's end, however, Koch conceded that Stern was not sure that its signed agreements were enforceable. Parker acknowledged that portions of the disputed story came from interviews with Newsweek's consultant at the Zurich sessions, Professor Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina. Said Parker: "No one said to us in the vault, 'Do not take notes.' I never saw Weinberg sign anything." Weinberg admits that he pledged his secrecy and was interviewed for the Newsweek story, but denies taking notes...
...more damaging to Stern than Irving's melodramatic outburst were the quieter disclaimers made by two historians who had been invited to the conference to authenticate the diaries. Weinberg, though he had tentatively judged the documents to be real, called on Stern to bring in handwriting analysts and teams of scholars to check the diaries page by page. Cambridge Don Trevor-Roper, who was sent to Berlin by the British government in 1945 to verify the circumstances of Hitler's death and who wrote the definitive account of the Führer's final days, retreated, more...