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...proposals are intended to tighten security around employees like Pollard, who held top-secret clearance as a civilian on the counterterrorism staff of the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md. The FBI and the Navy began investigating Pollard after co-workers reported that he had been taking home classified material, and agents have seized a document-filled suitcase with Pollard's name on it. Late in the week the FBI also arrested Pollard's wife, Anne L. Henderson-Pollard, 25, and charged her with unauthorized possession of classified documents...
...danger of an Iranian blockade has lent special importance to Oman, which lies on the strait's southern shore. An Omani naval base at Ras Masandam monitors all ship movements through the channel, while the sultanate's fast and flashy Province-class patrol ships, each armed with eight radar-guided Exocet missiles, are on constant alert, occasionally shooing away Iranian intruders. Qaboos has also seen to it that Oman's 21,500-man volunteer army, navy and air force do not lack for equipment. He lavishes 46% of the national budget on the military and keeps it supplied with...
...concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies to be forwarded by helicopter to U.S. naval task-force ships in the Indian Ocean...
...Pollard became a civilian analyst at the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md. He first came under suspicion last month when co-workers reported that he had been taking home classified material. Two weeks ago FBI agents confronted Pollard as he was leaving his office. He was carrying about 60 highly classified papers on the military and intelligence capabilities of several foreign countries. During questioning, Pollard confessed to receiving $2,500 a month since early 1984 in exchange for U.S. documents that he gave to Israeli contacts in Washington. Agents later discovered a suitcase crammed with top-secret papers...
...regularly scheduled six-month follow-up to his surgery for colon cancer last July, President Reagan paid a return visit last week to an operating room in Bethesda Naval Hospital. What had been billed as a routine examination proved to be a complicated series of tests. Doctors clipped three tiny polyps from the wall of the President's colon and shipped them off for examination. A surgeon shaved off a tiny growth on the right side of Reagan's face and sent it, too, for a biopsy. The six-hour medical work-up also included X rays, blood tests...