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Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is among the great manipulative villains of our time. Your article warns us that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...
...underground electrical explosion rocked the Harvard Law School (HLS) late yesterday afternoon, resulting in the evacuation of several Law School dormitories last night...
...federal funds paying for the 7.5 miles of roadway (3.5 of which are underground) have been guaranteed by a long series of colorful Congressional benefactors. The list includes Edward Kennedy '54-'56, the senior senator from Massachusetts, former House Rules Committee Chair J. Joseph Moakley of South Boston and former Speaker of the House, the late Thomas "Tip" O'Neill of Cambridge. In the Bay State, these are noble men who have served the interests of their community well. Many say The Big Dig was Tip O'Neill's final salute, his going away present...
...ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent. "The information is always shrouded in secrecy and comes in tiny bits that have to be pieced together like a puzzle...
...these cynics with disposable income, advertisers have been devising below-the-radar approaches for years, come-ons that are harder to detect and resist than dancing tacos or Liz galumphing through The Nanny. These are all the rebel ads and anti-ad ads of recent vintage, from former "underground" beat poet/heroin addict William Burroughs flacking for Nike to Sprite's "Image Is Nothing" campaign that attacks advertising as a bunch of lies; from the spot that insists buying an Audi is "a declaration which screams out 'I will not wallow in conformity...