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NEW YORK — Preventing
terrorist bombings and kid-
napings of business executives
or their families is impossible,
but there is one sure way that
corporations and individuals
can determine if they are a
likely target, says a former
head of the New York office
of the FBI.
Paul Chamberlain now
runs a global security firm
based in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
with a staff made up mostly of
former FBI agents.
The Firm handles all types
of security, but increasingly is
being called upon to handle
kidnapings, bombings and ex
tortion cases both before and
after the fact. The Chamber-
lain agency holds seminars for
executives and their families
on how to minimize kidnap
ing and extortion risks.
A businessman can consid
er himself or his family a pros
pective target for kidnaping
“if he is perceived to have
ready access to big money,”
Chamberlain said.
“The experience of police
and other authqrities with
kidnapers is that although
they tend to be unstable per
sons, they often are above av
erage intelligence,
S uite shrewd in fact, and
on’t make many mistakes in
choosing victims.”
A businessman who sus
pects he may be perceived this
way probably should get ex
pert advice on how to dispel
that impression, Chamberlain
said. Many companies have
set up crisis management
teams to identify risks and to
handle kidnapings or extor
tion threats if they occur.
' The figures aren’t in for
1982, but in 1981 there were
more than 200 kidnapings
and more than 4,700 extor
tion cases.
Kidnapings and exttorion,
whether carried out by politic
al terrorists or psychopathic
criminals, inspire more fear in
business people than bomb
threats, he said.
The 15-year-old daughter
of a bank director was kid
naped from her home by two
masked gunmen. The father
got a phone call demanding
$1 million. The Chamberlain
agency took over negotiations
with the kidnapers, informing
them that the father could
raise only $125,000. Mean
while they made sure the girl
was alive and would be freed.
The patient but tough
stand finally persuaded one of
the kidnapers to let the girl
escape. Three persons were
arrested and prosecuted.
During less than 10 years
in business, the firm has han
dled successfully 13 kidnap
ing and extortion cases,
Chamberlain said, and has
handled many more while
working for the FBI.
No foolproof method of
preventing the bombing of
offices, plants or homes exists,
Chamberlain said.
The best protection is a
good overall security system
that limits access to the pre
mises as much as possible
anne adetailed plan for what
to do when a bombing or a
bomb scare occurs, he said.
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CHICAGO — A painless
paint-on” coating applied to
the biting surfaces of teeth can
stop the spread of tooth decay in
children with early cavities, re
searchers say.
h “Application of sealants on
Bteeth with newly apparent or
early cavities arrests the decay
process,” Dr. Dennis H. Leverett
of Eastman Dental Center in
Rochester, N.Y. said in the Jour
nal of the American Dental
Association.
“The growth of most of the
bacteria that spreads decay is
halted and the need to restore
the tooth with a filling may be
avoided.”
Leverett and his colleagues
tested the procedure on more
than 1,000 children in the
Rochester area during a four-
year period.
“It works — we recommend
it,” Leverett said in an interview.
“The significance of it is that we
may have an alternative to the
conventional drill and fill
approach to getting rid of
decay.”
The sealant process causes
less stress for the patient and is
more pleasing cosmetically.
“There’s no discomfort at
all,” Leverett said. “Nobody
really likes getting an injection
of Novocane and have someone
drilling on their teeth. And I
think generally speaking, no de
ntists like to do it.”
The sealant process takes ab
out five minutes. The tooth is
dried and acid is applied for a
few seconds in order to etch it
slightly. Then the acid is rinsed
off and the liquid plastic is dab-
M bed on.
The sealants are used on back
■ teeth — pre-molars — “because
K that’s where most decay starts, in
if surfaces with grooves and pits in
■ them,” Leverett said.
The study monitored time-
■ and cost-efficiency of sealants,
as opposed to restorative fill-
ings.
“The use of sealants in this
instance has been shown to be
cost-effective,” Leverett said.
“But dentists and consumers
alike must be aware that this
therapy is not suitable for all
children with cavities.”
Sealants are not suitable for
deeper cavities and are less
advantageous for patients with
no history of cavities and little
likelihood of developing them,
he said.
The study found that more
than 51 percent of the original
sealant application was retained
after one year in thq test sub-
[ jects, while more than 32 per
cent was intact after two years.
The study used sealants of
“the first generation,” Leverett
said. “The newer sealants are
much more durable and ... likely
to stay in place for a longer
period of time.”
The sealant should be used
during the decay-prone years —
from the time a child’s perma
nent teeth first comes in
through the late teen years.
“Deterioration of sealants is
always possible,” Leverett said.
“Retention should be checked
by a dentists at least annually
and the sealant should be reap
plied as necessary.”
In the late teens, the sealant
could be replaced with a small
permanent filling.
“Our studies suggest that
more dentists ought to consider
placing sealants over small cavi
ties,” h said. “As long as the plas
tic sealant is intact, the decay is
not going to progress.
“In fact, we have a lot of bac-
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United Press International
NEW YORK — There’s good
news for messy corporate work
ers. A clean desk is not necessari
ly the sign of a tidy mind or an
efficient worker.
“The fact is it’s a sign of a
compulsive mind — one that’s
insecure if anything is out of
place,” industrial psychologist
Krass Kestin said.
Robert Kelly, senior vice
president for Paul B. Mulligan 8c
Co., a management consulting
firm specializing in white-collar
productivity, has been in hun
dreds of executive offices dur
ing his career.
“There are very few clean,
clean desks I’ve seen,” he said.
“It’s pretty rare to find that
clean, clean desk — as opposed
to the organized but not clean
desk and to the disorganized,
unclean desk.”
Dr. Theodore Niedegard, a
psychologist at Cabrini Hospital,
said having a totally tidy desk is
not a prerequisite for produc
tivity.
“Someone who focuses on
keeping the desk clean, every
thing filed away, may not be
focusing on getting the job
done,” he said.
The ability to focus within
apparent clutter may be one of
the keys to differentiating the
productive packrat from some
one who simply has lost control
of his or her surroundings, some
experts suggested.
Kelly said: “Have you ever
taken a look at the desks on
police shows like Hill Street
Blues? There’s disorganization,
and files that aren’t important
are on the desk. But they keep
the priority stuff in a little space
perhaps 2 feet by 2 feet right in
front of them. That’s what’s hot
today, what they’re working on.
They’re concentrating on one
thing at a time.
“You can have several stacks
on your desks. They can be (in
order) or in disarray so you real
ly don’t know what the heck is
important or what isn’t.”
Kelly is a tack person himself,
going through his piles of paper
every Friday afternoon and
reorganizing them.
“The prioritization runs from
right to left — that’s just a quirk
of mine because I’m lefthanded,
I guess,” he said. “The stack to
ward the right would be the
most important.”
Kestin, a consultant to
Emhart Corporation’s human
resources department, said a
moderately messy desk is
nearest the norm.
“What’s important is to know
where things are, no matter how
great the clutter, so you don’t
have to waste time looking for
them,” he said.
While having a clean desk
may not be a priority for a pro
ductive person, he or she also
should recognize when the clut
ter has approached the point of
no return, Niedegard said.
“Someone who’s well orga
nized knows where that point is,
and when things get near that
point, the priority of getting
some things off the desk moves
up a bit,” he said.
Kelly admitted that if he saw
an entire department filled with
cluttered desks he might suspect
“potential ineffectiveness in the
operation,” but said that you
can’t form an opinion by lookin
at one desk.
“I think on the other hanc
when you see the totally deal
desk you sometimes wonde
whether that person has enoug
to do,” he said.
“Really and truly the appea:
ance of a desk is not... always a
indicator. Some people fei
comfortable working in th;
kind of (cluttered) environmen
Others do it because they don
know what the devil they’r
doing.”
Kestin said creative peopl
are particularly notorious fc
desk clutter.
“Other things are more irt
portant to them than appeal
ances,” he said. “That’s wfi
some of them go around lookin
like unmade beds.”
With changing office techno
ogy, more and more paperwor
now is being Filed electronical!'
suggesting the possibility of
new office phenomenon — th
cluttered computer.
“If you’re disorganizet
you’re disorganized,” Kelly sak
teriological evidence that not
only does it not progress, but the
bacteria underneath the sealant
die. Within a few weeks, all the
bacteria are dead.
“It’s just a much more conser
vative, much gentler approach
to the age-old problem of what
to do with cavities in teeth.”
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