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...Fred Woodruff was just another diplomat until he died. But when CIA director James Woolsey flew to Tbilisi to collect his body last week, it was not hard to deduce that Woodruff was actually a U.S. spy. His death dramatized America's increasing involvement in the volatile remnants of the old Soviet empire. As Washington tries to boost its ties with these disorderly states, even to mediate their conflicts with Russia, Woodruff's slaying raises a sharp warning: these lands are increasingly chaotic, and chaos has its perils...
...Woodruff, ostensibly a regional-affairs officer assigned to the new Tbilisi embassy but actually the CIA's acting station chief, spent Sunday afternoon on a sight-seeing trip to the village of Kasbegi. He was riding home in a white, four-wheel-drive Niva jeep driven by Eldar Gogoladze, who heads the security unit in charge of protecting top Georgian officials, when suddenly, sometime after 9:30 p.m., a single bullet pierced the brain of the 45-year-old American. Gogoladze was unharmed...
...Woodruff killed by criminals in a botched stickup? Or by an overzealous guard at a checkpoint? Or by assassins gunning for him or Gogoladze? The murder remains a mystery. American officials say the killing may have been a random event. Highwaymen regularly prey on motorists along that road. Although three locals were detained and questioned by Georgian authorities several days after the murder, a U.S. official says they were "not political." Two FBI agents flew to Tbilisi last week to participate in the investigation...
These donations were a decided blessing, especially at a time when colleges everywhere are hungering for money and government support is drying up. As a result, fund raisers have been compelled more and more to rely on big-bucks givers like Robert W. Woodruff -- former Coca-Cola chairman, whose $105 million gift to Georgia's Emory University in 1979 stands as the biggest single donation to any private college (Rowan's is the largest gift to a public college) -- or Stanford University alums David Packard and his wife Lucile, who gave their school $70 million in 1986 for a children...
...Woodruff-Pak's test checks for a form of learning called classical conditioning. Essentially, that is learning to associate one stimulus with another. Pavlov showed dogs can learn that a particular sound meant a meal was coming...