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...where he would have access to classified information." Arthur landed a position (and a top security clearance) with the VSE Corp., a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va. He has admitted to the FBI that John Walker then paid him $12,000 for access to documents on landing-craft repairs from the VSE files that were classified confidential...
...Hughes also knows the craft firsthand. He began his professional life in his native Sydney, Australia, as a painter. It was the sale of his works that financed his early efforts at art criticism. In 1964 he moved to Port'Ercole, Italy, where, he says, "a permanent fixation on Italian painting from the birth of Masaccio to the death of the younger Tiepolo took over." The experience proved fatal to Hughes' artistic career. He renounced painting because, he says, "having been to Arezzo to see the Piero della Francesca frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross, I realized that...
...more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard, was put to work making the army transports that now convoy Soviet troops over the Afghanistan countryside. Far worse, grinding machines that can craft tiny ballbearings, legally sold to the Soviets by a small Vermont company in 1972, have in the estimate of U.S. intelligence experts saved the Soviets about a decade of R. and D. on improving the accuracy of their ICBMs...
When an oscillator aboard the $50 million NOAA-8 weather satellite turned balky last June, the craft began tumbling out of control in its polar orbit. Without power, its systems shut down. All seemed lost, but a determined band of controllers from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), NASA and RCA refused to give up. Over the next ten months and on hundreds of occasions, they beamed radio signals at the errant craft, trying to revive...
...odds they faced were formidable. The signals could reactivate the tumbling satellite only when its solar panels faced the sun, which provides the power need- ed to run the craft's transmitter, and when the oscillator could be turned on long enough for it to stabilize. This un- likely confluence actually occurred in late April. After the controllers reprogrammed NOAA-8's computer, they reoriented the satellite and restored its power. Last week the rescue team was testing the craft's onboard systems in preparation for returning it to full service in July. Said Controller Gilbert Phelps: "It was simply...