Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politics dogs power. In part the Soviet pullout appears to be a getting-even with Jimmy Carter's 1980 boycott after the invasion of Afghanistan. But since the Soviets were always intent on showing their displeasure with Ronald Reagan, they could have chosen no better theater...
...hungry Finance Minister Jacques Delors swoops down from a helicopter to collect the franc used in the coin toss of a soccer match. Intent on projecting French military power abroad. Defense Minister Charles Hernu leads an attack against the tiny principality of Monaco: "Ack-ack-ack!" President Francois Mitterrand interrupts his compulsive globetrotting for a rare visit to Paris and, shuddering at what he finds, hightails away again...
...Webb, U.S. Attorney in Chicago, said Friday that he had carefully reviewed Farrakhan's alleged threat and found "insufficient evidence of the requisite criminal intent" to sustain a prosecution...
...amid the continuing turmoil is the SFC mandate to increase the U.S. energy supply. So far it has granted $120 million for the Cool Water Coal Gasification Project in the Mojave Desert and $620 million for a coal gasification project in Plaquemine, La. The agency has issued letters of intent to four other projects, including one for $365 million to Signal Energy Systems' Northern Peat Project in Maine and another for $790 million to the Great Plains Coal Gasification Project in North Dakota, which has received $2 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Energy Department. Energy Secretary Donald...
...trespassing and data theft are particularly difficult to prosecute. Most states have no specific laws against breaking into computers via telephone lines or even deleting information stored within the machines. Says SRI's Parker: "If someone merely gained access to a computer and you could not prove malicious intent, he probably would not be prosecuted." Laws written years ago to deal with tangible property do not cover cases in which information is stolen from a computer data base, copied and then returned...