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Plastic Chip Gun a Chip Gun Anew “Chip Gun” has been developed which sends out a radio frequency sig- nal to destroy computer chips. “A pulse could be propagated over a wide zone, in roughly the same way that radio signals can blanket a city. It might act as an electronic wall disabling any approaching airplane, . tank, or missile”, according to defence specialist Chuck de Caro in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Soviet superiority in radio defence applications has Western scientists and engineers worried [See NEXUS issue 2 Australian money - the alternative to “But as soon as we start using them F plastic cards - is to be made of plastic. A the rest of the world will want to follow new CSIRO invention is to change the suit and so there is the prospect for face of our currency, starting with a great earnings from the sale of patent Bicentennial commemorative banknote and licensing rights.” Australia may reportedly portraying Captain Cook. also produce the notes for less techno- The new money is made of anumber logically advanced nations. of images set within laminated layers of “T've held one in my hand and you plastic polymer, which can change can’t pick them from a conventional colour when seen from different angles note,” said Mr Wran. and even when touched. ‘Impossible’ to The Reserve Bank’s annual report tear or reproduce photographically, the states that the $2 note will be replaced new notes are the culmination of a 20- by a coin in 1988 and that forty million Earl Resurrects King year secret joint project between the old one dollar notes, withdrawn from CSIRO and the Reserve Bank, devel- circulation in 1984, are still missing -no James Earl Ray, jailed for life in the US oped to make forgery impossible. doubt hidden under mattresses during for the murder of civil rights leader Dr “It will save Australia millions of the Fraser years. Martin Luther King on April 4th, 1968, dollars because the notes will last much Is the CSIRO moving away from wants a retrial. longer,” said CSIRO chairman Neville pure research and getting down to “| had a show trial, and that’s about Wran. making money after all? it,” he said in an interview on British BBC TV. Ray claims his lawyer gave him _ A | L no option but to plead guilty after he was LLERGIC O IFE captured in London on June 6th. “| was just unfortunate to be in the Five Melbourne firemen have devel- send him into a rage, give him head- wrong placeat the wrong time,” he said. oped severe allergies to everyday items aches or force him to spend days in bed. Ina series of magazine articles written in after being exposed to a gas released by There are 20 more suspected cases the US by William Bradford Huie, Ray burning building materials. in Victoria. claimed that he had been the unwitting Toluene DI-Isocyanates (TDI) is used in paints, plastics and polyure- thanes and turns to acid when it comes into contact with moisture. One of the firemen, Mr Graeme Hartney, was exposed to TDI when his breathing apparatus was knocked from his face while fighting a chemical fire in A South Melbourne in 1982. The gas fo burned his nose and respiratory tract, 2 leaving him unable to filter air. It also badly damaged his immune system and left him highly sensitised to newsprint, car exhaust, tap water and Sy food kept in plastic containers or wraps. | The smell of perfume or deodorant can pawn ina conspiracy to kill Nobel laure- ate Dr King. At the close of his one-day trial on March 10th, 1969, both prosecution and defence attorneys went to great pains to explain to the Jury that there was mo | conspiracy. Ray began to disagree but was interrupted by his defence counsel. Under Tennessee law, pleading guilty to murder automatically reduced Ray's death sentence to 99 years. In the same BBC program, King’s son Martin said he believed more than one person was involved in his father’s killing and that he did not rule out the involvement of the FBI. Nexus New Times Three 5 ALLERGIC LIFE send him into a rage, give him head- aches or force him to spend days in bed. There are 20 more suspected cases in Victoria.