Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planted a small quantity of explosives, without detonator to be sure, on the grounds of the residence of the French Ambassador, where Mitterrand was to hold a reception. The technician, acting without authorization, apparently wanted to test British antibomb squads. The explosives were quickly discovered by dogs trained to detect them. Understandably edgy in the wake of the Irish Republican Army bombing in Brighton two weeks ago aimed at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British authorities questioned the French technician at length and gave him what was described as a "verbal lashing...
...quite that. But in recent months, the virus has served as something of a Rosetta stone in the efforts to decipher the enigmas of AIDS. It has also made possible the development of a test that will detect evidence of the infection in donated blood, an important step toward preventing the spread of AIDS by transfusions. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Antonio, and at gatherings of AIDS-related groups in New York City and San Francisco, the new developments were the major topic of discussion. Finally, it appears...
...life did not appear on earth until 1 billion years later. Some astronomers, moreover, are skeptical of the pair's planetary speculation. Says Fred Gillett of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson and a member of the IRAS team: "It would be impossible, using this technique, to detect large bodies...
...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...