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Kremlin scientists cannot possibly compete with their U.S. counterparts in % the race of microchips and laser beams that have increasingly become the sinews of modern warfare. The Soviets have long been able to build powerful rockets and sturdy tanks, but their home-designed computers are slow and crude. To close the gap, the Soviets have waged a massive and successful campaign to capture America's technological wizardry. Since the late '70s, estimate U.S. intelligence experts, the Soviets have made off with 30,000 pieces of high-tech equipment and 400,000 technical documents. As a result, declares Assistant Secretary...
...Customs officials found the garage of Millie McKee, a divorcee living in the San Francisco suburb of Redwood City, stuffed with high-tech gear. Charged with illegally exporting laser components and sophisticated electronics to Switzerland, where authorities believe it was transshipped to the Soviet Union, McKee was given a six-month work release sentence for making a false statement. She described the crime as "all technical violations," like driving 60 m.p.h. in 55 m.p.h. zones. "There's been little fear of heavy sentences. It's more often a slap on the wrist," says Robert McDiarmid, a Santa Clara County private...
Other technological breakthroughs have made secrets harder to keep. Most phone messages now pass through the airwaves rather than over wires, which facilitates interception by the microwave gadgetry atop Soviet consulates and in offices. Sophisticated laser devices can eavesdrop on conversation in a room by picking up the vibrations from the windowpane. The most insecure place to store information is probably a computer. A study by the Department of Defense Computer Security Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though...
Neon has also been employed on Broadway (in Chicago, Sophisticated Ladies) to evoke bygone eras and in films to fulfill the future. In the age of laser beams and computer-generated graphics, Neon Artist Larry Albright simulated intergalactic weaponry and UFOs for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...scheme last month. Mitterrand had previously rejected the Reagan proposal on strategic and political grounds. The French appreciated Kohl's remarks on the necessity of West European technological cooperation, particularly his support for a French-sponsored project to create an agency to pool efforts in space-age laser and particle- beam research...