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...doubtless installed in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic properties in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Kremlin's listening post in Cuba, for example, can pick up virtually all traffic from U.S. domestic communication satellites. Says an NSA official: "They just sit down there with their huge vacuum cleaner and suck everything up." In recent years the Soviets have developed computers that can cull such intelligence with much more sophistication than earlier models, and not just in search of defense secrets. "A computer can put together those bits and pieces," says an NSA official. "And even if the vast majority...
...celebrate the opening of "Asante Kingdom of Gold," an exhibit of some 800 gold shields, swords, necklaces and handicrafts that will be on display through March. The King, who was last in New York in 1969, observed that the city "has grown bigger, with many more buildings, and is cleaner." The mayor obviously did some whispering in his ear. -By Guy D. Garcia...
...lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded in the face of the orchestra's harpist; a hasty search was undertaken for a substitute to play the crucial part...
Finding the wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...
...real story, then, is about Nancy Riggings from Fort Worth. Or Nancy Riggins the maid from Chicago. Or Nancy Riggins the bed pan cleaner in Little Rock. Or Nancy Riggins the single unemployed mother in a Roxbury. Or Nancy Riggins the illegal immigrant from Mexico who works in the factory for a buck and a half an hour...