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----Letters to the Editor (continued) Continued from page 5 I just purchased your infopak for The Adams PEMG Manual from your USA distributor, and have read the NEXUS articles on the Adams Motor since issue no. 'UII. I plan on building a unit and would like to know if 'there are other researchers hete in the USA (or anywhere) that built a unit and don't mind being contacted by fellow researchers. Could you fax to me your reply to my work fax number above. Thanks again and I loo_k for ward to hearing from you iooll, Sincerely, Micbl1el Randall c/-PO Box 1028, Sierra Madre, CA 91025, USA; fax (8~8) 355 0756. Ke: italy'S Ignoble Prize Dear Editor. Italy has been plagued by a cas cade of scandals-which have even involved the head of uate, who could not be replaced simply because there was no substitute above suspicion. The rash of arrests, murders, sui cides, enigmas ~d revelations is keeping spell bound Italian TV viewers riveted to their seats everyday. One aspect not usually mentioned is the pan played by the medico/pharmaceutical combine. Mio Poggiolini was top of the pharmaceutical department of Italy's National Institute or Health. When the police inspected' his home, they found so much solid gold in anefacts and coins besides precious stones and jewels s~ed away in cupboards and drawers, apart from records of secret bank accounts in Switzerland, that a TV crew came to immortalise on film the glittering caravan carrying away the loot, leav ing this old racketeer only the comfort of the nickname "King Midas" in the national press. All this was dwarfed by Poggiolifli's explana tioo of where some of the billions of lire he had appropriated had ended up: "Fourteen !billions," Poggiolini told the prosecutor, "were spent to get Montalcini her Nobel Prize." This outrageous gur on Italy's Rita Levi Montalcini-who had been showered with national admiration, government accolades, honorary titles andl academic curtsies and medals, awards, editorials and honours when in 1-986 she had been crowned by the Roya'l Academy of Sweden with the Nobel Prize for Medicine-greatly offended whatever was left of national honour and pride. The intimation of "King Midas" Poggiolini, the confessed head crOQk of the National Institute of Health, that al~ this aura and glory had been bought with hard cash, was at first ,greeted with instant disbelief by the entire Italian press. It was too mindbog gling to accept that Montalcini's "great discov ery for which humanity should 'be grateful" was nothing but a hoax with a very high market value. But soon the tune started to change. The Corriere della Sera, Italy's Times, on 15 February quoted Poggiolini speaking again of the conditioning the international drug industry --.._....,._ ..•. exerts in the choice oJ the Nobel Prize, arid reported that, as a result of Poggiolini's revela tions, the President of the World Federation of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Alberto Aleotti, and the proprietor of Sigma,Tau pharmaceuti cals, Claudio Cavazza, had been lIrTe~sted for alleged paying of bribes of 2 billions and-6OO billions. Rita Montalcini has denied the alleg81ions, 'as has Michael Sohlman, director of the Nobel Foundation who says it is "Absurd, simply absurd". Elwin A" Auckland, New Zealand. Ke: UFO Moon Mission? Dear Duncan: I h_ave jus~ read a:n.~iele in this month'§ Astronomy magazine 'about the CJemenline spacecraft which was launched to ·map the Moon. The stated mission is a miner alogical survey. However, it was funded by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, launched from Vandenburg Air Force. Base" and built an~d controlled by the Navlrl Research Laboratory in, Maryland. USA. I am sure that Clemenline's real mission is to search for UFO bases on the Moon, Yours sincerely, David 1., Elizabeth, South Australia. OCTOBER -NOVEMBER 1994 NEXUS. 81