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...Then there's embassy security. The State Department has been under fire from Congress for lax security at its foreign posts ever since terror attacks two years ago Monday at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 263. But the Senate bill would cut $137 million earmarked for security upgrades overseas...
...hone their computer skills. Others do it for sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing number, the motivation is ideological or nationalistic. Cybercops have begun focusing on a small number of hacker havens--similar to money-laundering havens--where lax or nonexistent laws, corrupt and incompetent authorities, and adept programmers conspire to pose a threat to computer systems worldwide...
...Patti or Madonna 36. James, scoutmaster who lost his position because he's gay 38. Everyday article 39. Notable caravel 41. Dissenting vote 42. Revival shout 44. Court here will decide Pinochet's immunity 46. Ali's daughter, with six straight boxing victories 49. New Deal power agcy. 50. LAX posting 51. Kenny Rogers' She Believes __ 54. They've sued Wal-Mart over bogus T shirts 58. Beatnik's interjection 59. Hands-up time 60. Sweet treat since 1912 61. Lawyers' org. 62. Vietnam-era Admiral Zumwalt 63. Country in which 12-Across is located...
...Church's lax policy on religious observance for choir members helps keep them there. During the Sunday services, choir members are concealed from the congregation by the altar screen, and are known to read or doze off during the sermon...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT is furious--and embarrassed. It is bad enough the State Department had to admit that a notebook computer with sensitive material had vanished last January from its ultrasecure internal spy shop after Albright's inspector general warned about lax security there just months before. Now, intelligence sources tell TIME that the laptop in the Intelligence and Research Bureau contained critical data on weapons proliferation: the spread of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Some of that intelligence came from signals intercepts classified as "Gamma"-level Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), two levels above Top Secret...