Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About three dozen journalists were given a tour Monday of a new U.S. Embassy housing compound being constructed near the current mission. Congressional investigators said last week that Soviet construction workers had planted listening devices in both facilities...
Marines were not allowed to leave the embassy compound unless accompanied by another American, and they could not stay out overnight. But Soviet drivers claim they often took Marines to parties at foreign compounds and brought them back as late as 6 a.m. Americans visiting the embassy recall being asked by Marines to escort them past the entrance. One American woman said she twice drove a Marine to visit what he called his "Finnish girlfriend." But, she said, "the place was some sort of Soviet institute, so I suspect the girlfriend was Russian." Another way for the Marines...
...days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because the compound has been linked to cancer, fear swept Sturgeon, and the Kemner case took shape...
...wife and alerted her to what was happening by using the code word "cactus." Anne Henderson-Pollard then warned the Israelis of the impending danger and tried unsuccessfully to dispose of a suitcase full of classified documents. A few days later the Pollards drove to the Israeli-embassy compound, where they apparently hoped to gain refuge and perhaps political asylum. But the Israelis, realizing the Pollards were being followed by the FBI, turned them away, and the pair were soon arrested. Sella, Yagur and Erb quietly slipped out of the country...
...much sought-after goal proved to be elusive. In the early 1970s scientists found an alloy of niobium and germanium that lost all resistance at 23 K. Then, last April, a group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland announced development of a compound of barium, lanthanum, copper and oxygen that appeared to begin the transition to superconductivity...