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Hofmann bargained with church members to obtain the McLellin collection for the church for $185,000, and he had already received $150,000 for the documents from another investor. But he could not deliver: the "discovery" was the product of Hofmann's fertile and lucrative imagination. Christensen may have begun to suspect this; two hours before he was to inspect the documents, he was killed. Gary Sheets, according to prosecutors, was targeted for murder as a diversion...
...page study, the 21-member panel, which was chaired by Lew Allen Jr., director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, argued that current controls were excessive. Despite the restrictions, the Soviets manage to obtain much of the sensitive technology they seek, said the group. Many of Moscow's gains come through espionage or illegal diversions from legitimate foreign customers. (One coup involved sophisticated look-down radar, originally a U.S. monopoly, now standard equipment on the latest Soviet MiG aircraft.) Meanwhile, friendly customers in Western Europe and Asia are increasingly looking outside the U.S. for goods on the dual...
...force Moscow to allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the beginning of her six-month visit to the West, Bonner adhered to a pledge she had been obliged to sign in order to obtain her visa: she would hold no press conferences and give no interviews while abroad. Later, however, she was outraged at seeing secretly recorded videotapes of herself and her husband that portrayed them as living in comfort in Gorky. She was also upset when Gorbachev declared last February that Sakharov would...
After the meeting, trustees had to try to obtain their coats off coat racks near the protesters. Students kept the coats from the trustees shouting "No. If they want their coats, they'll have to divest first...
Monago also said that several Cambridge citizens have complained that neighbors obtain permits but claim on insurance forms to garage their car elsewhere. Residents who register their car in Massachusetts and principally garage it in Cambridge pay the third highest car insurance premium in the state, after Somerville and Boston, said Monago...