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Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, has confirmed that such a weapon, which he calls a "kind of nuclear shotgun with little pellets," is being developed under the code name Prometheus, despite SDI's supposedly nonnuclear status. It is only one among several new approaches to nuclear weaponry secretly under study in the nation's bomb-design shops, including the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories...
...part of the birding world. Once the president and general manager of Wrangler jeans, Odear quit to make "one-third the money" running a birding company called Bob-O-Link and its phone service, the North American Rare Bird Alert. For $25 a year, subscribing birders are given a code name and the right to dial into a tape, changed as often as three times a day, listing the whereabouts of all known rarities in North America...
What kind of criminal prosecutions might grow out of the Iran-contra affair? The answer can be found in Title 18, Section 371 of the U.S. Code. In exceptionally sweeping language, that statute declares: "If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose . . . each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both...
Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...
...manhunt, code-named WANT, for Warrant Apprehension Narcotics Teams, was conducted by squads of Marshals Service investigators operating out of eight cities and three foreign countries. Howard Safir, head of operations for the Marshals Service, conceived WANT as a way of getting at traffickers who have plenty of cash and ready-made support networks to hide them. In the past, says Safir, "if a drug trafficker was out more than 48 hours, he was basically home free...