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...notion seems to be that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
...courtroom confrontation: defendant and prosecutor, both decorated Marine veterans of Viet Nam, locked in a bitter cross-examination. The Oliver North who endured four days of acerbic questioning by prosecutor John Keker last week did not come across as a selfless patriot used by superiors to carry out a covert plan for assisting the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban. Instead, North emerged as an evasive witness with a selective memory and unusual personal finances...
NATION: As Oliver North takes the stand, the Government says Bush made covert efforts to aid the contras...
...there was ever any doubt that President Bush and former President Reagan were intricately involved in running the covert operation to arm the Nicaraguan rebels during a Congressional ban on such aid from 1985-86, government documents released last week should help dispel it. The documents strongly suggest that Bush, while vice president, played a more direct role in covertly arranging aid for the Nicaraguan Contras than he has previously acknowledged...
Think this is only the stuff of fictional covert operatives? Think again, and welcome to the new world of biometric security. It is a world in which traditional keys and combination locks could eventually become obsolete. Increasingly, access to buildings, rooms and vaults will be controlled by computerized machines that can recognize personal characteristics of people seeking entrance: fingerprints, blood-vessel arrangements in the eye's retina, voice patterns, even typing rhythms. These biometric machines have special sensors that pick up the characteristics, convert them into digital code and compare them with data stored in the computer's memory bank...