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...decoded without sophisticated equipment. But unscrambled transmissions from most agencies are vulnerable to eavesdroppers using commercially available radio scanners. DeConcini wants Congress to fatten the budget for secure communications. The Government was reminded of the embarrassing problem of intercepted radio messages during the Achille Lauro episode in October, when ham-radio operators heard Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger advising the President over an unsecured channel. NEW JERSEY A Corrupt Pol Surfaces...
...with profit-oriented agriculture cooperatives and carefully administered oases of free enterprise. Along Budapest's glittering Vaci Street, the shelves of well-kept stores and boutiques are stuffed with Western videocassette recorders, luxury clothing and high-tech kitchen appliances. The nearby food markets display long racks of sausage and ham, mounds of fresh winter vegetables and ubiquitous garlands of crimson paprikas. Says a member of Hungary's new economic gentry, a small-time plastics manufacturer known as Jozsef: "Are we rich? By Western standards, no. But here, we are quite comfortable...
...constant vigilance." She pares each opera's budget line by line, until expenses are balanced by box-office receipts and fund raising. This may seem like mere common sense, but in opera it is a radical approach. Of necessity, she chooses the repertoire carefully and conservatively, this season balancing ham-and-eggers like Butterfly and Traviata with Otello and Die Meistersinger, the lone German entry. "What I've learned," says Krainik, "is that you can have all the art you want if you've got the money...
...Quincy: heavenly ham, appetizing apples, tantalizing tomatoes, with delicious Dijon mustard. The Broadway: succulent smoked salmon, commendable cream cheese, and copious capers...
...very different methodological bents that, nevertheless, add up to a complete basic understanding of a part of the world, a culture, a diaspora, a continent, a period of time. Sounds great. But even the most enthusiastic history and science concentrator will tell you that Harvard’s sometimes ham-fisted attempts at providing interdisciplinary study is not always that enriching...