Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...
...actually looks a bit like a mouse, with its rounded corners, off-white color and thin wire tail. The size of a pack of cigarettes, it fits snugly into the palm of the hand. Slide it across a table and electric signals go down its 2-ft. tail. Plug that tail into a computer, and the mouse directs the movement of a pointer on a video screen. The result: a device that can bypass the thicket of codes, commands and complicated keyboards that have plagued users since the computer era began...
...course, agreeing is not all that hard for the Washington press corps, to the extent that its members run in a pack, share common attitudes and read each other's stuff. But consider the criticism this time...
...Third World. The growth in the past decade of the Third World tobacco market, particularly in Africa and Latin America, has been phenomenal, surpassing the tobacco companies' wildest hopes. There, the American firms take advantage of the freedom from restriction they find in less developed countries, where a pack of Marlboros isn't required to carry a health warning. The same U.S. law which requires such warnings in the U.S. exempts the tobacco companies from providing them abroad. Such inequities deprive consumers in the world's least developed regions of the ability to make an informed, objective, and free choice...
...Year's Eve, six people, all but one of them white, were killed in a spree of violence near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. In an especially gruesome incident, the throat of a 71-year-old farmer was slit ear to ear. Only days earlier, a pack of 15 to 20 armed men wearing green camouflage uniforms and animal-skin caps had halted traffic on the Bulawayo-Gweru Highway, spraying buses and cars with gunfire and then torching three of the vehicles. Three blacks died, and 21 were injured...