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...against Bernhard Goetz, the subway vigilante who is awaiting trial for shooting four teenagers he alleges were threatening him on a Manhattan train last December. In late April, a sample from the city's water system contained levels of cancer-causing plutonium up to 200 times as high as normal but still no more than .4% of federally established danger levels. Declared Koch: "The water is absolutely safe to drink." Law-enforcement authorities are still looking for a culprit. Shrugged the mayor: "We don't know if it was a hoax, sham or a deranged mind." CENTRAL AMERICA Weighing...
...taken by France, Botha said, "It amazes me that a Western government that takes an interest in Africa and in the interests of black people can take exception to a government that restores order when Communist powers and Communist-inspired powers murder black people and try to disrupt the normal life of black communities...
...divorced in California last April; in Somerville, N.J. Ruling on a petition by De Lorean challenging the California court's jurisdiction, a New Jersey judge declared their Golden State divorce invalid. Rather than appeal, lawyers for Ferrare, who is remarried to TV Executive Anthony Thomopoulos, decided on a normal Garden State divorce, with a hearing now scheduled for early autumn...
Amazed AT&T employees are still calling it Boss Monday, but to rock fans it was simply the day Bruce Springsteen tickets went on sale in Washington. Lines were jammed by hundreds of thousands of attempted phone calls, an estimated 130% above normal. The added callers were trying to buy 3,000 tickets (at $18.50 each) for Springsteen's concert next Monday at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Back home after a triumphant tour of Europe, Springsteen is resting and rehearsing for his new 25-city, nine-week American tour. The scramble for tickets to the concerts also caused communications snafus...
...Veterinary Medicine, Richard Palmiter of the University of Washington in Seattle and their colleagues concocted a sort of two-part genetic mongrel. They fused a gene that produces rat growth hormone to a powerful regulatory switch cleaved from a mouse gene. That construct in hand, the scientists mated normal male and female mice, and then removed the fertilized eggs from the female before the egg and sperm nuclei had combined. Viewing the cell beneath a microscope and wielding a glass micropipette less than the width of a human hair, the researchers injected their fusion construct into the larger male nucleus...