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...pistol and two grenades aboard the plane. Ali Atwa, a member of the Shi'ite team who did not board and was subsequently arrested in Athens, told officials that the weapons had been wrapped in fiber glass to avoid detection. Security experts, who say that fiber glass cannot foil X-ray machines, believe it is more likely that the arms had been planted on the plane by an accomplice, perhaps an airport worker...
...confusion may stem from Iran's recent efforts to play down its connections with terrorists in hopes of winning international support for its 4 1/2-year struggle against Iraq. Atwa told police that his friends had managed to smuggle two grenades and a 9-mm pistol through the airport's X-ray machines by wrapping the weapons in fiber glass insulation...
...hope of turning brown eyes to blue, for example, Mengele injected the eyes of children with dyes and poisons. He castrated men, forced miscarriages in women. He exposed healthy patients to yellow fever and X-ray radiation and, when he was finished with an experiment, had his subjects exterminated. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins and dwarfs: at a tribunal in Jerusalem last February, Auschwitz survivors told of how he had had two toddler twins stitched together and of how, discovering a Rumanian circus family of seven dwarfs, he exhibited them naked before an audience of 2,000 cheering...
Oddly, on the weapons front the most recent research development may actually be something of an embarrassment to the Administration. Reagan has laid great stress on developing a "nonnuclear" defense, but the strongest laser beams that might eventually be used to destroy missiles are X-ray laser beams -- and they are produced by detonating atom bombs. In underground tests of an atomic device in Nevada, researchers are said to have considerably increased the brightness of X-ray laser beams, which would greatly extend their potential missile-killing range. Research into X-ray laser beams at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...fantastic," and repeated last week his view that SDI threatens "a big new escalation" in the arms race. For good measure, he took a swipe at Edward Teller, his colleague from the World War II atom-bomb project who is now a promoter of Star Wars in general and X-ray lasers in particular. Teller, said Bethe, was the scientist "who brought us the H-bomb with the statement that it will...