Word: area
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, it appeared, the worst had been averted. The vessel's two reactors were shut down, and no fatalities were reported. Soviet officials insisted there had been no venting of radiation, thus no threat to people or the environment; Norwegian tests showed no unusual radiation in the area. Nonetheless, the accident dealt another blow to the prestige of the world's largest undersea fleet...
...worth his clipboard would give a rating point to get in on. Currently approved by the majority: any movie in which heartthrob Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) removes his shirt. The video of the film Bull Durham, in which Costner takes off more than that, is one of the area's hottest rentals. Television gets its share of attention. Before summer reruns took over the tube, the women found that Moonlighting was funny again, and the wacky comedy of Tracey Ullman acquired a growing following. The women who watched The New Perry Mason marveled at the good shape of Della...
...have let the Soviets into the embassy. He might also have been able to help the KGB learn the combination to the vaultlike front door of the PCC. But once inside, Soviet operatives would have been faced with several locked doors, one of which led to the CIA's area: that would have been the target. Inside that room was a subvault that housed the CIA's printers, communications and coding machines...
...tried to open it and change the number, he would destroy certain indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate and replace them. Sources say the CIA had also installed an "event recorder" in its area that recorded the time when the main CIA alarm went off. Finally, there were covert "traps" on both the CIA and State Department communications equipment designed to indicate any tampering...
...easy enough to determine that those devices reflected no evidence of penetration. The alarms for the main State Department vault and the CIA area had never gone off on the same night -- as would be expected if someone had entered the PCC, walked through the main room and entered the CIA subvault. Although there were some anomalies in the records for various monitors (for example, the door counter sometimes registered twice if the door was slammed hard), these never matched up with one another in any meaningful...