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...from reassuring. "This volcano is potentially at the beginning of activity that could last weeks, months and years," said Darrell G. Herd of the U.S. Geological Survey. For now, the survivors of the volcanic holocaust face a new life of trembling uncertainty. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Armero and Tom Quinn/Bogot...
...corner or disappearing into a manhole, as Len Deighton slowly brings his three-volume tale of find-the-mole to a close. Readers who have stayed with the author from the beginning may have forgotten that Berlin Game, the first book in the trilogy, begins with British Intelligence Agent Bernard Samson and his old friend Werner Volkmann doing a bit of surveillance near the Berlin Wall. Samson, sour and middle-aged, asks, "How long have we been sitting here?" and Volkmann, an ironist, replies, "Nearly a quarter of a century...
...bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery boy . . . 'It could get messy; people with a history of bad decisions are going to be axed very smartly.' Dicky smiled. He could afford...
...monopoly on the revolutionary new weapons, Washington proposed creating an international agency that would take control of all nuclear weapons and material, after which the U.S. would relinquish its arsenal. "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead," declared former Wall Street Financier Bernard Baruch in presenting the plan to the fledgling United Nations. Moscow's Ambassador, a youthful Andrei Gromyko, put forth a Soviet counterproposal: a ban on the construction of atomic weapons and the destruction of the U.S. arsenal, with no provisions for inspection or enforcement. The cold war was just getting under...
...coverage up to a maximum of $10 million. Now the premium has quintupled to $350,000, and on top of that the hospital has had to come up with another $1 million for its self-insurance trust fund, because the deductible was raised to $2 million. Says Executive Director Bernard Brown: "If you come to our hospital, you pay the price. It is being passed through...