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...requires constant medication. Indeed, Mondale confessed that some of his early campaign glitches came from fatigue. Both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt became seriously incapacitated, and their conditions were obscured from the public. The chances of that sort of thing happening in the television age are remote. We could detect it instantly, and the political and governmental system presumably would force the President to step down using the 25th Amendment, which establishes procedures for succession...
Disinformation is the term that intelligence analysts give to falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...
Preserving the vast collection also occupies a major part of the Library's concerns. "The danger to me, particularly, is that for a large and old collection like ours, it's hard to detect what's quietly deteriorating in the stacks," Feng says...
...Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...