Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--A Harvard astronomer was instrumental in the arrests in West Germany this week of three men who allegedly broke into key military and research computers in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, West German officials said...
...German television network reported that authorities believe the West German hackers were recruited by the Soviet KGB in 1985 and "were paid with cash and drugs and were later forced to provide the codes and passwords to the Soviets...
...hide their location, he said, they attacked military computers via modems, or telephone computer links, through a constantly changing series of computers at West German universities, American research labs and defense contractors...
Having taken a year off before matriculating, Joslin traveled extensively in Europe, including three weeks in the Soviet Union. She speaks French and Greek fluently and has studied German and Chinese...
...cassette player may have been put on board with luggage in Frankfurt. The evidence further pointed to a radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that it might be intended to pass undiscovered through areas subject to extensive security...