And I won't let you down well hopefully all the students won't feel let down when they see their CAO offers because they're now well as I speak checking them out online available from two o'clock and the deadline is to next Wednesday afternoon to go through them to size them up I mean if you know it's your first choice then obviously great news but you know there might be other considerations as well and if you haven't applied through the CAO but we'd still like to start university in next month well there is of course available places with the CAO but to any or to tell us a little bit more I'm joined in studio by the registrar to ATU that is a Billy Bennett Billy thanks for coming in and hopefully shedding the weave of the light on all of this how are you no problem good afternoon and good afternoon all the listeners yeah great great day for most people microphone in a bit there there or if you just move around a wee bit the microphone is not going to come to you you come to the microphone okay there we go perfect now anyhow um so yes um a lot of people will be be checking it out now to see if they got their you know got their first choice yeah absolutely so the offers have just gone live um you know it's been a stressful I'm sure week for a lot of people they've just got their leave and sort of now the next phase is what they're doing next and and most people who've applied to us in ATU will be getting good news and will be getting hopefully a very high preference offer this afternoon what sort of percentage are we chatting about that are likely to get if they if they an ATU top of the list are likely to get it okay so um across our programs in ATU across both the honors degrees in ordinary and higher certs uh 80 plus percent will get their first preference and that really means that ATU has become a university of choice that students right across this region from letter Kenny to letter frack um in the nine campuses across the region in the main are going to be offered a program that is their first choice not a lower down preference so nine campuses from here to Galway here to Galway big region huge region huge region that's sometimes been described as a region roughly the size of Wales uh with two campuses here in Dunny Gaul uh two in Sligo uh one in Mayo and four in Galway right so huge region we've almost 24,000 students and we will plan to take in an additional 5,000 first year students full-time first years through the CAO this year right I've taken them in and getting them a place to stay or two different things there'll be a lot of parents now anxious to move on if you know if the uh their students has got a place then they're going to be you know uh scrambling I'd try to get them a place to stay but anyway that's that is uh that's not what you're here to talk about yeah well accommodation is an issue and I suppose part of the impact of this is that students are increasingly uh looking to stay in the regions rather than necessarily going to Dublin or the bigger cities where accommodation is even more problematic I would appeal to people though who have rooms in the houses um maybe kids are growing up themselves the options of taking a student in on a kind of a digs arrangement is is very attractive um and people can earn the income from that tax free so you know anyone who hasn't thought about it thinking about it still contact the student union and the offices in any of our campuses to look and see what you might be able to offer there yeah it might be a nice wee airnager in the academic year a nice airnur but also maybe a bit of company if somebody you know for extra noise and activity around the house and uh as well as an extra airnur which of course is tax free up to 14 000 euro yeah might just be company is right yeah okay um so uh those that have got their first uh you know their first offer accepted then that that's that's brilliant but what about you know those that maybe are not happy with what they've been offered what you know what you know where available places is an option absolutely so the first round offer is just live there in the last few minutes we're making 11 and a half thousand offers uh across right across this university and they have until tuesday uh of next week except or not 3 p.m to accept if you're happy or reasonably happy i would urge people to accept the offer um if you get an offer in round two which comes the following week that will supersede even your round one acceptance so don't worry that by accepting that's the end of the story you may have a higher preference program that you weren't offering round one that will come to you in round two and if you're offered that that then can take precedence over your round one oh so you get to pick and choose well you as long as if you've already got your first preference then that's it finished because you've got your first preference but if you got your second or third preference today and you have a first preference that places become available on over the next week based on the number of acceptances then that second round offer will take precedence over the first round but you can't change your order of preference if you've got your first preference you've got it speaking of preferences you know the points requirement to atu up a lot up at all up much this year so uh on our on our honors degree programs which is what i think most people will be looking at um we have 12 new programs we've no comparator to make with last year so that's great news as well lots of new programs and offer on almost half and about 40 percent of the programs the points will be the same give or take a few so within a kind of a 10 points plus or minus will be the same as last year on about a third of the programs at level eight the points have gone up and on the other quarter uh the points have gone down so it's down to supply and demand where the additional interest is and where places are constrained and and that will influence the where the points go so the points vary hugely year on year um i think the overall situation is with the increased uh grades from the leave insert the points have been up for the last few years and they'll remain broadly at that level but individual programs will go up and down what areas have you seen more demand in this year okay so i suppose across this university the ones where we've seen the kind of biggest points changes have been around areas like architecture, animation, public health nutrition kind of some of the health related areas and science related i suppose has been where there's been a fair bit of uh of growth in particular um in terms of the the kind of main areas where we've seen offers biggest numbers of offers are in uh areas like business, health sciences, biomedical science, marine biology, um health science, physiology, law, engineering, undenominated common entry science and business so a whole range of of areas kind of account for those maybe top 10 in terms of uh in terms of the offers but i think the areas of kind of science and health sciences have have have done very well for us in terms of our offers this year right now going back to CAO and first preference and second preference and accepting offers and so on available programs uh or available places program explain okay so available places is a facility that will open tomorrow uh so available places opening and that's essentially a new application so a student who either didn't get what they wanted or who didn't even apply can effectively make a brand new application through the facility on the CAO called available places we are going to have 18 programs uh at the two-year or higher cert and three-year ordinary degrees available to students so seven of those will be on the campus in Donegal four in Sligo four in Galway and three in Mayo so we have them right across and right across the disciplines of science engineering business computing design etc so great opportunity if you didn't get your first choice or if you had considered going abroad or doing something else and now decide actually i'd like to go to university after all the available places brilliant opportunity for people and it's it's not a case of sort of picking up scraps you may be surprised at at the the list that's there oh absolutely um the the programs that are there are programs where we've put additional capacity in but those programs will all have routes then on to other programs so you might come in on the ordinary degree or higher cert but there will always be a route on to an honors degree program and write the which route to masters and phd for many of our students okay um just remind us of the the uh departments six departments am i correct in saying in general on offer at atu in terms of the faculties or schools we have 13 faculties right across the university that's over 40 departments so i'm talking about our our campus is right across the board in dunny goll that's three faculties and 10 departments are in operation there so the other one i suppose the people will there'll be a small number of students who got bad news last week around the the mats and the leaving cert and there was a lot of coverage of of the mats paper at the time paper one yeah paper one i know it took a lot of air time here but uh we do have a solution potential solution for students where mats is a requirement on a program they've got decent points in the leaving cert but didn't manage to get over the line but mats we are running an enabling mats program started today but it's not too late uh for people who have not managed to pass mats and who need at a minimum ordinary level mats to get on to a degree program they can contact us there's a face to program started on the letter kenny campus but students from anywhere in the region who want to come into a to you can join the program online it's a two-week intensive mats boot camp and if they pass that mats that's deemed to be the equivalent of ordinary level mats in the leaving cert and therefore they will have been deemed to have met the eligibility requirement and can be offered a place hopefully in round two uh of the ceo so it's a fantastic opportunity and the other option i mean there's two other options if you didn't get the news you're hoping for as you've just gone online there today one is our access program so we also have with the access program which runs face to face and donnie gall will be also aiming to run a shorter version of that in sligo and possibly in mayor gallway later this year we already have over a hundred students signed up for the program and on completion of the access program maybe people who weren't ready to go straight into a full-time degree program can take the access route prepare them for it they do a huge amount of work around communications ict and then subjects in in the disciplines to to really immerse them in the high third level experience about 50 to 60 percent every year of students who take the access program go on and do a full-time program for others maybe they realize that that's not the route and they decide to go into a an into something else interesting maybe in further education or an apprenticeship but they've still got the year of experience and and it's a great experience for people and the other one just to mention john is the new um tertiary education programs so government put out a call to us a few months ago and atu responded and we have nine of these new tertiary ed programs so these are programs where the students do year one in the local etb and then our guaranteed access onto year two of the degree program in atu oh they don't go in at year one they go into year two and that's the new departure so there's always been opportunities for students who've done a level five fet program to go into year one this is a new departure so a student can take on uh business it or engineering here with etb and dunny gall and similarly in the etb's msl meoslaigo litrum and gall fever scum and etbs and it can progress to either a business program uh laboratory science program engineering slash ict or nursing uh within the university now nursing is a little different to the other two in that it's a one year plus the four the others are all one year and then they're straight into year two of the degree and that's a brand new type of program the nto the national tertiary office nto.ie um details of all the programs are there and they're just another really good opportunity for people to try a different route and they're not constrained by the traditional leaving certain points race so it's a really good opportunity for people to look at as well well there's a lot there to digest and uh i'd say for some students our heads you know will be frazzled today and in the coming days trying to decide but uh the good news is that there's an open day friday open day friday in dunny gall and again our marketing team are available right across the university for people who want to look at studying in our castle bar or slagot gallway and dunny gall campuses and the marketing and admission teams are available to take queries uh but absolutely welcome people to the in-person open day which is happening here in the uh in the letter kenny campus on friday yeah 11 to 4 and atu.ie for information on the website as well billy pleasure as always thank you thanks very much around the


I am lost among the stars, I'm lost track of where we are Oh Luma, when I saw she'd gone, I rose up to her pearly throne And reached up as to only one point in the sky I question why you'd come down here to save her, you to save us So let's go and search for her, though I know where she resides deep in the earth I can't explain about what I'll get to see I've run away in far too long, I think I found her all along When Luma, I adopted you and built our sword to Our planet is now ours Very far away from earth we've fallen from the stars Our beautiful cosmic family, this galaxy


I'm going to present this update of the trial, which I think is known to many of you. It's the phase three trial in advance and metastatic kidney cancer of the volumab against everolimus in patients that have received anti-angiogenic therapy beforehand. Bob Motser is the PI on this study. These are my disclosures. As you all know, the volumab is a fully humanized IgG anti-PD1 antibody that specifically prevents the interaction of the ligands PDL1 and PDL2 with the receptor PD1. Are you also, I'm sure, aware that in the phase one trials the anti-PD1 showed considerable activity in renal cell cancer as well as other tumor types such as melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer. Everolimus is also well known to the audience. It's approved both in Europe and in the US for relapsed treatment after anti-angiogenic therapy with a doubling of the PFS when compared against placebo in a randomized trial. This study, which I guess is known colloquially as Check 25, has an interesting entry criteria in that everybody must have tissue available and it must be fairly fresh tissue or recent tissue before randomization so that the PDL1 expression can be assessed prior to randomization. This is the schema of the trial. Patients have to progress on previous anti-angiogenic therapy or within six months. The randomization is one-to-one as you see. RMA is Nivolumab. Given every two weeks, Everolimus is given a standard dose of 10 milligrams a day. Treatment is until progression or toxicity. The primary endpoint of this study is overall survival. The hazard ratio that we're aiming at is 0.76 which gives us a 32% increase in median overall survival between Nivolumab and Everolimus. The primary objective is, as I said, the duration of OS and as well as secondary endpoints of PFS and overall response rate, the duration of the overall response rate is going to be compared in the two groups, the PDL1 expressing and the PDL1 not expressing group, which is why the patients are stratified for PDL1 expression before randomization. Key inclusion criteria are really very standard. The only thing I think that's worth pointing out is that patients can have one or two prior anti-angiogenic therapies but cannot have more than three prior systemic therapies in all. Exclusion criteria, no history of CNS metastases. Prior treatment with PDL1, anti-PDL1, anti-CD137 and anti-CDR4 antibodies are not allowed. Thank you. These are the acknowledgments.


Today is a day to commemorate and a day to salute. We commemorate the magnificent Challenger 7, when we lost last year at this time, and we salute you, the men and women of America's NASA team. America will never forget that terrible moment a year ago when our relation turned to horror and then to grief and pain. Seven of our finest perished as they reached for the boundaries of space, where Earth ends and the path to the stars begins. No, we will never forget them. They represented so much of the best that is in our land. They were Dick Scobey and Michael Smith, both heroes of battle, both experienced test pilots, both with the heart and soul the great explorers have always had, always searching, always reaching. There were Judith Resnick, Allison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, and Gregory Jarvis. They were pioneers of the mind as well as the stars. From every corner of America, they had come and from many backgrounds to join hands in a common adventure. Don't they, by their example, tell us just why it is our blessed land has become so great? And of course, there was Krista McAuliffe, whose profession was among humanity's most honored and revered, that of a teacher. She had hoped on that mission to give history's first lessons from space, lessons that were to be beamed to school children across America and around the world. Well, she never got to give those lessons in space science, but she and the others did teach America's children something, nevertheless, something precious, something enduring, something perhaps more valuable than any other lesson they will ever learn. I remember in the hours and days following the tragedy, there was talk of the permanent trauma that children of America might suffer as a result of viewing the shuttle disaster. And yes, the events that day did leave their impression on them, but not the one that we feared. No, instead one that can make us all proud of the strength and spirit, the courage and love of our young people. You can see that lesson reflected in one simple fact, the number of new memberships in our young astronauts program has never been higher. This past year, I spoke to a meeting of the young astronauts and I can tell you that another place that lesson is reflected is in those young astronauts' eyes. They know that exploration has its risks. They know that with adventure also goes danger. They know all this, but they also know something far more important, something about the spirit and sense of joy that have kept man reaching through the ages to grasp for the limits of his universe and beyond that. Despite hardships in peril, kept explorers like Columbus, Magellan and Drake sailing into uncharted oceans, that despite comforts they left behind, kept pioneers like Boone, Carson and Clark crossing America's frontier, that keep us still reaching for the unknown. Christa McAuliffe and all the magnificent Challenger 7 taught this lesson of courage, spirit and love to America's children. And now it's for all of us to learn the lesson from them. This has been a year of careful self-examination at NASA. Under the able leadership of Jim Fletcher, you've moved quickly to implement the recommendations of the Phillips Task Force and the Rogers Commission and have just completed a broad and important reorganization. Everyone in the NASA team has again shown their dedication, their commitment to excellence and now NASA has begun to resume its forward progress. This year we mark the third decade of space exploration. In those three decades with NASA in the lead, mankind has received images from the outer reaches of our planetary system, sampled the climate of Mars, learned new and undreamed of truths about our own planet and landed a man on the moon. In the next three decades, NASA will again lead in mankind's dreams. In just two years, Voyager 2 will pass Neptune and unlock for us the secrets of that distant brother to our own Earth. By the end of the next decade, the Galileo Orbiter and probe will tell us more than ever before about Jupiter and the Hubble Space Telescope will be in orbit looking into deep space, helping us understand the creation of solar systems like our own. And in an international project, the Ulysses probe will teach us more about the sun. These unmanned projects are the scouts for manned space travel of decades to come. In the next decade, we in America will continue man's personal adventure into space. You will soon be starting development in the space station to have it ready by the mid-'90s. The space station will be our gateway to the universe, our foothold in outer space, the keystone of our space program. With it as our base camp, we will be able to reach the planets and perhaps one day to the stars. We hope our friends and allies will join us in this great adventure. But that's not all you'll be doing in the decade and more to come. Here at home, you'll be shrinking the Earth as humanity never before dreamed. You will be developing a space plane so that one day ordinary travelers can take off on the east coast of the United States and land in Japan a little over two hours later. And one other thing. In the next decade, we will build and fly a new space shuttle. For me, this is a special commitment. In the first moments of grief and shock, the bereaved families of the crew urged us to carry on and keep the space program moving forward. We owe it to them and to those whom we too lost to do just that. Now, I know that voices have been raised from time to time, saying, oh, yes, it's exciting and adventurous. But does it have any practical value to justify its costs? Well, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Perhaps we've been derelict in not doing more to make known the literally thousands of human-oriented technological developments that have spun off from the program and which will affect all our lives and the lives of our children and our children's children. There's every reason to believe these spin-offs will become of tremendous value. Already, they include lifesaving technologies like the programmable heart pacemaker, the CAT scanner, and lifesaving fireproof vests for firemen. Space spin-offs have made drinking waters safer for communities in developing countries. Technology from the lunar rover now makes it possible for paraplegics to drive automobiles and drive them safely. Our automobile engineers in Detroit are using lightweight, super strong, plastic-like materials, outgrowths of space program technology to reduce the weight of cars. For consumers, that means more miles per gallon. And in the future, the space program will be making materials in space where we can manufacture in one month's time lifesaving medicines that would take 30 years to produce here on Earth. I understand that a project is now being developed to pass on to all Americans specific knowledge of this aspect of the space program. The United States Space Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation, is preparing a series of TV and radio public service statements so that all Americans will be aware of these achievements and how they will benefit all of our lives. I think this is a worthy effort. Yes, whether it's in the exploration of space or the applications of space research here at home, the future to which you are leading is bright. The challenge that you're shouldering for all mankind is one that we cannot turn away from. We owe it to our children and their children and generations beyond. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to those who with all their love and joy and courage taught us again just one year ago today that mankind's reach must exceed its grasp or what's a heaven for. Thank you all. God bless you.


You are speeding through the Turkish night on the Taurus Express. You are alone and unarmed and somewhere on the train is a calm killer from whom you must escape. Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson and carefully contrived to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight we escape to Turkey and the Taurus Express which carries a shipment of death. As Harold Lamb told it in his exciting story, three good witnesses. I took the Taurus Express that night because I was going home, back to the United States, back to California and my routine job at the oil company. Two days before, I'd given my final report to our State Department man in Istanbul, a negative report. In Mr. Ward, your considered opinion is that there is no oil in this area? Not enough to be worth drilling for, not at this late date. Ward, be over before we can get out 10,000 barrels. You're being optimistic, Mr. Ward. Ward isn't over yet. Who can say when it will be? Well, that's true, but... What does Arvark say? He agrees with me completely. So does Wyndham, the British engineer. We're all agreed. Three good witnesses, huh? Well, then that settles it. What do you mean? Three good witnesses. Oh, that's an old saying out here in the Middle East. Come from the A-rabs of Flank. In their old law, the testimony of three independent and trustworthy witnesses was enough to establish the guilt or innocence of an accused person. But why three? I suppose two witnesses to a crime might tell the same lie. But if three fellows tell the same story, well, it must be true. Hmm, maybe. I suppose the odds against three making up the same story would be high, but I don't know whether I'd like to trust my neck with that kind of justice. Yeah, it is a little different from a justice back home in Chattahoochee County. I imagine you'll be wanting to get back to the States as soon as possible. Indeed, I do. Well, I can put you on a Tars Express Wednesday. You'll be in Cairo by Saturday. Get an ATC plane that will have you in Washington three days later. Istanbul to Washington in less than a week. The small world, isn't it? Oh, I was booked on the Tars Express leaving Istanbul on Wednesday night. I got to the station late, and as I walked down the long platform toward the first class carriages, I sensed a tenseness in the crowd. First I couldn't explain it. Then I noticed that the platform was alive with police. They stood at the door of every car, motionless, solemn-faced, carefully scrutinizing everyone who got aboard. And it seemed that everyone on that bustling platform was aware of them. I found my car near the front of the train, a policeman stood at the open door. I paused to verify the car numbered. Suddenly I heard a voice at my elbow. I thought I had missed you.  Pushed her away to try to see her face, but she clung to me. Tried to say something, but she kept talking so fast I couldn't get a word in. How could you do this to me? To run off without even saying goodbye? I must be with you right up to the last minute, my darling. Last I could see her. She was beautiful. Very young and very beautiful. Turkish or Greek, I couldn't tell which, but lovely. I'm wondering why you must let me go on the train with you. See you safely to your compartment. I cannot bear it. Madam, I'm afraid you're making a mistake. Please, please, you must help me. I will explain. But I... Come, you will miss the train. I will see you safely on board. Come! Hurry! So we may say our last goodbye in privacy. This last was thrown over her shoulder to the policeman standing there. She pulled me up the steps into the car. He stared at us, but he said nothing. In the moment we were standing in the deserted corridor. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Now look here, young lady. What is all this? It is the fault of those police standing up there. I could not get into the car alone. But why not? This is a first class car. Only rich foreigners ride in first class compartment. I could see by your clothes you were American. I knew you would help me. But why did you want to get into this car, especially? Because I... Suddenly she stopped. And her eyes were riveted on something behind my back. I turned to see a swathe young man staring at us from the other end of the car. He was dressed in the uniform of a train conductor. Slid open a compartment door.  And then the girl slipped past me into the open room. Conductor slid the door shut after her. Your number, sir? Oh, oh yes, yes, sir. 12. Yes, the next one. Here. If there is anything I can do for you, I shall be pleased. If you care to leave your ticket and passport with me, I shall be able to attend to Syrian customs without disturbing you later. As he talked, his eyes were not on me. He was watching the slow progress of a policeman through the car. Officer was walking by, glancing into each compartment. When he came opposite us, he spoke to the conductor. Policala? Policala. The conductor was standing squarely in front of the door of the girl's compartment, hiding her from view. Policeman walked on. In a moment he had disappeared. Thank you, sir. I shall not disturb you. I went into my compartment. My bags were already there. The train was about to leave. Everything was in order. But I couldn't help wondering about the incident. I'd just witnessed it. About the girl I'd involuntarily hemped in the conductor. Wondered about all those police out there. Obviously, something was going on. Then I remembered this was Istanbul, the gateway to the Middle East. It was supposed to be a lie with acts of spies. Could that girl be... Then I laughed. Just my overage, stay at home, mind imagining things. Then suddenly I heard a voice in the corridor outside. What's the big idea? The voice was unmistakably American and music to my ears. I jumped on her feet and stepped into the corridor. There outside the next compartment was a young man in civilian clothes, carrying a small bag and a briefcase. The swarthy conductor was approaching him with a worried look. How about this, huh? There's a dame in my compartment. Big pardon, sir. There must be a mistake. This is compartment number 10. Naturally. You think I can't read? Number 10? That's mine. But number 10 is not sold. It is not marked on my list. The heck it is, and I've got the ticket right here. What's with the dame? Please, not so long. I don't get this. I beg your pardon. Can I be of any help? Oh, you're an American too. Yep. I'm free ward, Los Angeles. Tom Hatfield. I don't know you. Look, what's with the dame? Do you know? No, I'm afraid I... Please, gentlemen, step into the compartment, please. But the girl... Please. In. Yes? Okay. Well, I... Please. Oh, all right. T-epidestine. Vasariya. Apisemen, natukamo. Hey, wait a minute. Talk English. What's all this about, anyway? It is... I am embarrassed, sir. You're embarrassed. I buy a ticket and find a dame in my compartment. Of course. Oh, and closer inspection. Maybe I'm not so mad after all. She looks like a good deal. Thank you, sir.  Sir, the policeman will come by. Maybe look in. I must ask of you a favor. Yeah? If she could stay here just until the train has started, she will not bother you after that. Why can't she stay in her own compartment? Please, sir, I have no place else to put her. All the other places are taken.  Deadhead? No ticket. Stow away. It is something like that. What's the setup? Is she your girlfriend? No, no, it is not like that. It is... You see, we are both Macedonian. She is escaping from the Nazis. She wants to go to Cairo to join the nurse corps. Oh? She has been for two years in Greece, under the Nazis. Mm-hmm. She is a real patriot. If you will help her. Well, maybe if he introduced us and let her speak for herself. She is called Maradales. Well, let's make it Mary for short. Mary the Deadhead. Hi, Mary. Hi. You're okay. Get her. She talks American. I spent two years at American school at the Salonica. I worked with Red Cross in Greece during the fighting. Why, so? I like Americans. I want to go to United States. Who doesn't? I want to learn to be a real nurse. You will help me. Americans are always kind. Mm-hmm. This gentleman here. He helped me get on the train. Naturally. Now you will help me. Ha-ha. Okay? Mm-hmm. Okay. Thank you, sir.  Okay. This may turn out to be a pleasure. Looks like you don't need me. I'm in the next compartment. Maybe we'll get together later. Sure, sure. I'd offer you a seat, but we're sort of crowded already. Mary and me. I went back to my seat laughing. Laughing mostly at the silly idea I'd had that maybe Mary the Deadhead and her conductive friend were spies of some sort. Obviously, they were harmless. As harmless as I was. And that was completely harmless, come found it. I looked out the windows, the train slid out of the station, leaving Turkey, leaving the war, going home. Back to complacent safety. Men were out here fighting and dying. They'd get no help from me. Me. Overage and useless. Ha. I felt pretty sorry for myself. It wasn't until the next day that I began to get acquainted with my fellow passengers. Mary the Deadhead was riding on the conductor's jump seat at the end of the car. The Ruvians, an Armenian couple, were in 14, the Capapa next to mine. Young Tom Hatfield was on the other side of me. And two Greek refugees, Mr. Ciniara and Mr. Drikar, were next to him in eight. Hatfield kept pretty much out of sight all day, because Mr. Ciniara, who shared a table with me at dinner that night, I didn't much care for him, but he was somebody to talk to.  No, I suppose not. You do not know what it is to be safe. Just look around you. Almost all the passengers and this express are refugees. All of them would pay much to be going to the United States as you are. Yeah, I suppose so. But yes, where else is there any security for us? But you, sir, and your young friend are already secure. Wherever you go, you are always safe. But it is not so for us. Yeah, I suppose we do take a lot for granted. Oh, here's Mr. Hatfield now. Hatfield, won't you join us? Thanks, no, I'll just sit over there. No, I insist. I was just leaving. You must join your friend. Oh, really? There's no need? I insist, please. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Ciniara. It's been a pleasure. And for me, sir, good evening. Good evening. How are you? Well, I haven't seen much of you today. Been resting, eh? Something like that. You ordered? Yes, I'll call the waiter. Never mind. He'll be back. Who's your slick-haired friend? Oh, Mr. Ciniara. He's a Greek refugee just escaped from the Nazis.  He was saying how lucky we are to be Americans. I guess they don't see many of us in Turkey these days. I guess not. I haven't seen many of us myself. Funny, I didn't run into you in Istanbul. I was in there just passing through. Oh. I thought I'd have met you at the American mission or somewhere. No. I... Well, I'm out here at the State Department. Oil. And I didn't have much luck. I'm going home now. Too bad. Hmm. Many of things for us Americans to do out here, though. Like oil and other things, you know? Of course, they give the unimportant stuff to has-beens like me. Stuff for young fellas like you. Okay, Mr. Ward. Hmm? What? Okay. I'm Tom Hatfield, Frankfurt, Kentucky. White, Protestant, 26, unmarried. No, I'm not a draft dodger and no, I'm not a wall. And yes, I'm here on business, which is none of yours. I'm a Captain Air Force, two years overseas. You might say officially, I'm on a holiday. The fact is, I'm taking this train to Adana, where I get off at five tomorrow morning, cross the border and catch a plane that's waiting to take me to Cairo. Anything else you want to know? Oh, I... I'm sorry, I... I'm sorry. I guess I'm getting on my own nerves. Forget it, William. Oh, it's nothing. You needn't think that... Riding on trains is kind of bad for a flyer. It makes me jumpy. I understand. But you must have already been through a lot. I do understand. I was in France in 1918. I know what it's like. Maybe you know better than I do. Oh, I wouldn't say that, but I envy you. I'd give anything to be in it. You're lucky you're not. Oh, I know, I know. No fun being old and useless like me either. I envy you. And I can tell you're doing something important. You can? How? Mm-hmm. By the way, you're so careful with that briefcase. Carry it around with you all the time. You got it on your lap now. Probably got something important in it. The statues or something. Sorry you noticed that, did you? Well, I hope nobody else on this train is so observant, Mr. Warden. Oh, you're pulling my leg. What difference does it make, anyway? You can never tell on a train like this. Out here. You never know. Oh, you mean spies? Well, I... But why? I haven't seen anyone who looks suspicious. Spies are never suspicious looking, Mr. Warden. They're anybody. Anybody who wants to make a quick buck and doesn't care how he does it. This train is alive with people like that. We have it, but who? Who? I'll just take, for instance, Mary the Deadhead. She's young and pretty, yes. But she's broke. And her shifty-eyed boyfriend, the conductor. Oh, but they're Greeks. She's a refugee. So she says, but didn't it seem strange to you that he put her in my compartment by mistake? My name wasn't on the list, so he said. Were you satisfied with her story? Well, for a moment I was suspicious, but... You can't take too much for granted. Now, for instance, the story I just told you. I might be a spy, mightn't I? That whole thing might be hogwash. Well, no, no. You're American. I know that. Who else would say hogwash? No matter. I could be an American trader. There are such things. Oh, but that... Or you might be the spy.  Meek and mild. Casper Milktoes. And their cover stories are pips. Like telling you they're out here looking for oil. They strike up a conversation, ask questions, and notice briefcases. Oh, but look. Now, look here. Surely you don't think... No, I don't think anything. I only say you never can tell, Mr. Ward. Of course he was kidding me, pulling my leg. But I didn't really mind. I liked him. And he had a right to be cocky and flippant. He was doing something for the war effort. Even though I knew he was kidding me. I went to bed thinking about spies and fell asleep dreaming of them. Then very suddenly, I woke with a terrible sense of urgency. There was something that I must do. I looked at my watch. It was ten minutes to five. The train was dark. Everything was quiet. And yet, I felt I had to get up. I started to put on my clothes. It makes sense, but then I remembered. It was Tom Hatfield, not me, who had to get up at five, leave the train and head down at a... cross the border into Syria and take his plane. Those dispatchers must be important. If he had to change to a fast plane, as soon as he got out of neutral Turkey, when I stepped out into the dimly-lit corridor, it was... it was deserted. I knocked on Hatfield's door. No answer. I tried the handle. The door slid open into darkness. Something was wrong. I switched on the light and went in. Tom Hatfield lay there in the bunk of sleep. Hey, Hatfield! Rise and shine! We're coming into Adana! You've got to get off! I shook him. He didn't move. Then I saw blood in his pillow, not in his head. I looked around quickly. The briefcase was gone. Keep working! Keep working! There's something wrong, sir. Did either of you see anybody going to number ten? No. Nobody. Who should go... Look, do you have keys to the doors? But no. There are no keys. They lock from the inside, a sliding bolt and chain. Nobody can get in once they are locked. Yeah, that's what I thought. I knew Tom Hatfield would have locked that door. Somebody must have gotten in some other way and left that corridor open as a false clue. But how? Then I noticed the door which connected to number eight. I tried it. It was locked. This didn't make sense. But through my mind was racing one thought. American dispatchers have been stolen. Tom Hatfield is out. It's up to me. I searched the room. I found an automatic under the mattress, but no briefcase. I heard the train start up again. We were leaving Adana. I looked again at the connecting door. Then I got it. The bolt was fastened on the other side of that door. But on this side it was not. That meant that someone could have come in through number eight. I knocked on the door. I heard a movement and then the bolt slid back and the door swung open. I was face to face with Mr. Ciniata. And he was staring at the gun in my hand. Oh, my, is it? What is that for? The briefcase. The bag of my friend. Is it here? Briefcase? Bag? We have here only our releases. This door has been opened. Something is missing. Oh, if you have lost something, I pray you to look. I know nothing of it. Come in, please, and look. All right, I will. I'm not accusing anyone. But I just want to be sure that... The next thing I felt was a stinging coldness on my face. The rushing of wind. I realized that I was hanging half out of the window of the car. I was shoving me out of the train. Savagely, I kicked. I thought something gave. And I pushed myself back and slid down onto the floor. I thought something hard under me. The gun. And I didn't complain that I saw them coming at me. Ciniata earned the car. I raised the gun. What is it? What has happened? Oh, look. On the floor.  Are they... Wait. Let me look. Yes. Both of them. Finish. They took the briefcase. I'm sure they did. Hey, who's shooting up the place? Happy. How will you look at that? What's happened? Well, the briefcase. It's here someplace. I'm sure it is. Hey, wait a minute, fella. You're all banged up here. Looks like we both got bumped. Here, sit down. You'll need a drink. Mary, you'll find a pint in my bag. Bring it in here, will you? But they got the papers. We ought to look. They did. Yeah, the briefcase isn't here. I don't see it. Well, there wasn't anything in that briefcase, except some old Istanbul newspapers. They probably threw it out the window. Back at Hyderpasha, a Britisher I know, warned me to be careful on this trip. I put my classified materials someplace else. Well, but then that means I killed two men without any cause. Without a shred of evidence to back up my story. How we waste time. Quick. The Syrian border police got on the train at Adana. They might be here any minute. Now, who is dead here? Mary, the dead head, took me into Hatfield's room and carefully administered first aid to my cuts and bruises. But Kevorkian and Hatfield were busy in number eight. What are they doing? Never mind. Pay no attention. But they're throwing the bodies out of the window. Think not of it, please. Hi, Kevorkian is a Macedonian. When he fought the Germans at Thessalonica, he threw bodies over the cliffs. He knows what he is doing.  Even if you are not Macedonian, you would be judgment right for two, three years in spite of your age and your innocence. It is better to have no bodies. What's that? Be quiet now. The border police. Well, we got the room cleaned up just in time. He has their passport. I forgot. No, they are not here. I can tell you about Chiniar and Rica. But this man here, Mr. Ward, he is American general in disguise. Secret service. He put Chiniar and Rica off at Adana with pistol. They were spying. Good heavens. He'll never believe that. Never mind. This man is a Syrian. He does not care what happens in Turkey. But do you have any Syrian money? Oh, yes, yes. Here. In my wallet. Good. Give it to me. Thank you. Now. Come with me, Sergeant. I do not worry now, Mr. Ward. In a moment, Haiki working and will have those passports. We will throw them at the window and there will be no trace. I had to think, Mary. I thought you might be drawing down an access paycheck. It is no matter. Now we are out of Turkey. And before long, I can go to United States. Maybe that might not be so easy. You've got no money, no passport, no transportation through the combat zones. Never mind. I shall do it. I walk to here from Macedonia. I can walk all the way. Like Saint Paul in the Bible, walk to Rome. Well, I wish you luck, but you'll have a time getting by British control at Aleppo. You can't smuggle a pack of cigarettes past them. But what about me? What about a murderer? I don't know. We'll see. When the train pulled into Aleppo, the station where British control came on tripped me pretty awful. With Tom trying to act as if nothing had happened with me staring into that empty room, imagining Ciniara and Drika sitting there staring back at me. Maybe they had been spies. Maybe not. Now they were dead. And I was in trouble. We knew that the minute the train stopped, a soldier stood outside our windows and said, Look here! Everyone reminds of this place in this car. We waited silently for many minutes and a British major in khaki short stepped in behind him I saw Khiborkin and Mary the Deadhead standing in the doorway. Good morning. I'm Radcliffe. I'm looking for two missing passengers identified as the Greeks. Ciniara and Drika by name. Who come now? They seem to have been in the next compartment. And here. What became of them? Were there two? No. Young Lady. Yes, sir? You weren't the number eight, were you? You don't seem to have any other place. Nor a Syrian entrance visa. I sat down in the corridor. It's quiet. Conducted, don't you remember two passengers booked through to Aleppo? One was a stout man. Bookseller who escaped from Greece ten days ago. The other was... Ah, those! They descended from the car at Adana.  Oh, yes. Rarely. I say, isn't there a bullet hole in the wall up there? And you, sir, missed ward, isn't it? How'd you hurt your forehand? An accident. I bumped into one. Oh, yes, quite. I should tell you that the Armenian couple in number fourteen heard shots just after passing Adana. They were so frightened they locked themselves in until now. It's no use. I... I shot them. Both of them. They hit me first. Please realize that I'm not joking. My orders are to find those two pseudo-Greeks wherever they may be. Wait a minute. You said pseudo-Greeks? You mean a major. You want to find them? And how, as your American say? Why? Because we're advised by Istanbul that certain Axis agents have been working out of the Balkans with identification as refugees. These two, Tiniara and Dikar, were on this train. Our men on the train saw them throw something out at Adana. They partly threw themselves up. No, we did that. Your men at Haida Pasha tipped me off to expect trouble. Really? So they were agents. Certainly they were spies. But no Greek would be fat like Tiniara after only one week escaped from the Germans. And no Greek would have hair oil from Paris? Well, that being the case, will somebody start telling the truth? I will.  How you say, like nobody business. And now, please, he is still suffering from shock. So will you please give him a plane direct to Cairo where he can rest? And this American courier, he is late with dispatches. He must have a place in the plane too. And since I cannot enter Syria without the passport, will you please put me also on the plane? Because in Cairo, I can get a job as a nurse with the Ella Greeks from Macedonia who are there. And maybe God will then give me a way to go to America, like he passed St. Paul through the Taurus Gate. Is it a deal, Major? Three places on the first lane, and you have your men like the Royal Canadian Husis only dead. The plane could be arranged, of course, if... All right, Mr. Ward, tell him, tell him! With the eyes of that amazing girl on me, my courage came back. I told him my story completely in every detail. He listened carefully and took it all down in his pad, and afterwards he said... That story, Mr. Ward, is not one bit of evidence to support it. By your own statement, the evidence is buried in the snow on the slopes of the Taurus mountain. Nuts! I tell you, I help chuck it out. And I examined the two men. I am a trainer, and I said they were dead. And for identification, I, a soldier of Macedonia, can swear that their passports were the men you say. Very well, I'll bring the airdrome. The evidence of three good witnesses is sufficient. Escape is produced and directed by William M. Robson. And tonight brought you Three Good Witnesses by Harold Lamb. Adapted for radio by John Dunkel with Morgan Farley as Humphrey Ward, Jack Webb as Tom Hatfield, Jeanette Nolan as Mary the Deadhead, and Harry Bartell as Kevokian. Music was conceived and conducted by Cy Fuhr. Beginning next Sunday night, escape will be heard at a new hour, 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Next Sunday night, we escape with another exciting adventure story created for you by one of the world's great authors. Good night then, until 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Next Sunday night, when again we offer you Escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.