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...Baker, 31, a veteran Greenpeace activist, starts the Zodiac's 15-h.p. motor, and Matthew Whiting climbs aboard from the ketch. Whiting, 36, is lately of the French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen...
Whereas Willwerth, a 28-year TIME veteran, has covered many of those issues for us for years, Lafferty is one of our newer correspondents, having come aboard last January. She has given her home phone number to virtually everyone involved in the case-and, to her mixed gratification and dismay, many sources use it at almost any hour of the day or night. "Catching them at less harried moments means being around early and being around late," she says...
Infowar will aggressively foster new intelligence-gathering techniques. The Pentagon already has satellites, spy planes and unmanned aircraft with cameras aboard to watch the enemy on the ground. In the future, thousands of tiny sensors may be sent airborne or covertly planted on land. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory is trying to build an unmanned aerial vehicle about the size of a cigarette pack that can take pictures. Miniature aerial sensors might even smell out the enemy. For example, aerosols would be sprayed over enemy troops, or chemicals would be clandestinely introduced into their food supply. Then biosensors flying overhead, says...
...York in October." This is the first national alert since the Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings to passengers not to carry anything aboard an aircraft for someone they do not know. During Desert Storm, more stringent precautions were taken...
This is not the first time Thiessen, a Crimson editor, has sent his research aboard a NASA flight...