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...John le Carre's fictional world of spy vs. spy, the good spooks outfox the bad spooks by dealing in deceit and deception. In the real world of counterespionage, the FBI is taking a much more candid approach. This month it began running an unusual help-wanted ad in a Russian-language newspaper in New York City to make a very public plea: anyone having "direct knowledge of KGB methods or operations" should call or write the nearest FBI office. The ad provides telephone numbers, including that of a counterintelligence section conveniently manned by Russian-speaking agents...
...defense, the U.S. might have to repeal Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will"). All parts of the S.D.I. would have to mesh smoothly without ever being tested under battle conditions. Worst of all, perhaps, critics can suggest a host of relatively simple countermeasures that might outfox the most sophisticated defense. Given all that, though, an imperfect but effective Star Wars defense just might be possible. Barely. Eventually...
...confessed that he had laundered $250 million in drug money through Miami banks. In an effort to stop such large-scale manipulations, a task force of U.S. Customs and Internal Revenue Service agents has, since 1980, been auditing all financial transactions larger than $10,000. But still the traffickers outfox them. One way to defeat the audit: part-timers, from college students to grandmothers, are hired to drive around the country changing the cocaine producers' cash into cashiers' checks worth slightly less than...
...more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires be attached...
After seeing The China Syndrome, in which profiteering contractors and profit-possessed power industry executives easily outfox the Government agency charged with regulating their nuclear plants, even citizens not afraid of the peaceful use of reactors may wonder how well the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does its job. Such viewers should find an action last week by the NRC to be reassuring. In a case of life refuting the moviemakers' art, the commission shut down five nuclear plants in the populous East because of questions about their ability to withstand earthquakes...