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...they abducted and murdered eleven members of the Israeli team in Munich. The U.S. and some 60 other nations boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow, and four years later the Soviet Union and 16 other Communist countries retaliated by staying away from Los Angeles because, they claimed, security was lax...
Even insiders admit Harvard has been lax on this issue. "We've been struggling with this program. We would have been much better off as a university if we had instituted the [ethics] program five years ago," says Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison. "Harvard has not done as well as we should in this domain...
...refused to accept it. Navy investigators concede that their cases have been built largely with lie detectors and must be strengthened. Kunstler goes further: "The case is a consummate hype and fraud," he charged. "They're trying to make Clayton and, I suspect, Bracy too scapegoats for their lax supervision." He said he wants the case taken away from the military and handled in federal courts, where, unlike a court-martial, there is no death penalty for peacetime espionage. "They want to hang Clayton," Kunstler declared. "There's no question about...
More espionage arrests among guards and lax State Department security abroad stir an angry reaction in Washington. -- From Moscow to the Beirut bombing and Ollie North' s escapades, the proud tradition of the Leathernecks takes a beating. -- In the spooky world of electronic snooping, where a mike can be as tiny as a pinhead, the KGB may be overtaking the CIA. See NATION...
Marine officers who train the embassy guards point out that their men had performed without a known security breach for 38 years. The fault, they argue, lies with lax supervision by State Department security officials. A Pentagon source said that a former security officer is under investigation for malfeasance at the Moscow embassy when Lonetree and Bracy were there. The State Department has brought its current security officer in the region home for questioning. As the State Department quizzes its employees at the 225-member embassy, the initial responses, says one source, "are discomforting...