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Unlike spy satellites, such as the Pentagon's Big Bird or the Soviet Union's ill-fated Cosmos 1402, Landsat is not designed to ferret out hidden missiles, spot military movements or read the license plates on Kremlin limousines. Its strength lies in its ability to record panoramic views of large swatches of the earth in a multiplicity of colors, some of them beyond the range of human vision. Returning to the same site every 16 days, it can sound the alarm to changes in the health of crops, spot flows of pollutants into bodies of water...
Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. also have "ferret" satellites, or electronic ears, that can eavesdrop on radio transmissions. In addition, the Pentagon has various scientific satellites, including ones that measure minuscule variations in the earth's gravity, information that helps keep missiles on target. Parked far out in space are the Defense Department's Vela satellites, which watch out for bursts of high-energy radiation that may indicate a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, or the eruption of a distant celestial body. Under development is a system called Navstar (for Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging) that will...
...construction of the pipelines has apparently had little negative impact on the environment, partly because the pipeline companies have gone out of their way to avoid criticism from ecological watchdogs. For example, to protect the prairie habitat of the rarely seen black-footed ferret, Northern Border engineers enforced a 15-mile "construction constraint" along one stretch of the line in the Dakotas in order to loop around certain prairie-dog towns, which the ferrets raid for prey. The company also held up work in several other sections for two weeks to avoid interfering with the nesting habits of prairie falcons...
...available to the FBI which indicates that" Donovan or his Schiavone Construction Co. were "mobbed up." At the time, many committee members were skeptical, and Mullen admits his testimony may have been too "positive" and "sweeping." With last week's more serious claims that Mullen chose not to ferret out more damaging allegations against Donovan, a new congressional inquiry may be in the offing. Says Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton, a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee: "The aroma is so pungent that I think there will be hearings...
...appointed in December as a special prosecutor to investigate Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, he knew that gathering information about the business dealings of the former New Jersey construction executive would be difficult. But Silverman probably did not realize that he would also have to spend time trying to ferret out information from the FBI. The bureau conceded last week that it had failed to provide the special prosecutor, as well as the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which originally looked into Donovan's appointment, with a set of reports that included unproved allegations by informants linking the Labor...