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...Argentine President abruptly declared a nationwide state of siege last week, suspending for 60 days all constitutional guarantees against arbitrary arrest. As he outlined the draconian measure, Interior Minister Antonio Tróccoli stressed the "worsening and persistence" of violence in the country, a reference to a spate of minor bombings that began more than a month ago. Tróccoli knew whereof he spoke: a day before, a bomb had exploded outside his weekend home, injuring...
...rounded up all the escapees. Some had returned voluntarily, a few of them on the first day in time for their evening meal. Also in custody, though elsewhere in the city, were the prison superintendent and the two senior officers, who were charged with allowing the great escape. FRANCE Bomb Blast and Bombast...
Early this year a bomb went off in a computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years...
...Angeles water and power got off lightly. The logic bomb had not disrupted the intricate systems that control the flow of water and electricity to the service's 1.2 million customers. Says Lieut. Fred Reno, the officer in charge of the case: "A lot of customers in the city of Los Angeles could have been affected. That really would have been a disaster...
...pleasant person write a drama that is at once so unpleasant and annoying, yet so provocative that half of New York seems to be waiting to get into the Public Theater? The answer is that, like many moralists with a pen, Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which his characters rationalize all sorts of evils, including Hitler's atrocities. "I'm a rather amiable person," he says, "but I believe that our society is not just a little bit sick, but very, very, very sick. That's why I write...