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...budget. Funds for counterintelligence and arms-control monitoring are likely to go up. However, it should be possible to save some of the enormous resources currently spent by U.S. military intelligence. These include the expensive listening and cryptographic programs that keep track of the Soviet order of battle and intercept Warsaw Pact communications. Cuts may also be made in satellite programs aimed at tactical intelligence gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Trench Coats? | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...neighbors. The lift-off proved that Israel has missiles capable of carrying a warhead 1,500 miles, well within range of Baghdad. Since last July, Israel and the U.S. have been working on a ground-based missile that can fly nearly two miles a second, the speed required to intercept a tactical ballistic missile at high altitude. The program, called ARROW, is 80% funded by Washington. Israel hopes to launch the first test missile this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Stumbling Toward Armageddon? | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...beggar twirled like a crazed ballerina from commuter to commuter, caressing people's shoulders and prodding their bellies with a beseeching hand. Another rolled his wheelchair up against the commuters' feet and tugged at their sleeves. A third stretched across a counter in a weirdly feline gesture, trying to intercept the change coming back to Mike Farrell, 50, of Ringwood, N.J. "No!" howled Farrell, loud enough to make heads turn. "It's the only way you can get through to them," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City, U.S.A. Shrugging Off The Homeless | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...Tyler had been using a conventional telephone, his case would probably < have been solid. Unfortunately for him, the phone was a cordless model. Not only did that allow his neighbors to intercept his communications -- unwittingly at first -- on their own cordless unit, it apparently left him with virtually no legal protection. Citing precedents from other cases, two lower federal courts ruled that it was not necessary to obtain a warrant before surreptitiously listening to cordless phone conversations. Congress reached the same conclusion in 1986, specifically refusing to impose a warrant requirement on "the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reach Out and Tape Someone | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

With a little help from Western publications, exiled dissidents are again employing fax technology to send their pro-democracy views into China. But last week authorities got the message and ordered all work units equipped with the machines to intercept the transmission of objectionable material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fax It To 'Em | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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