Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Lawless's mother, pageant rules forbid her daughter from making more than one phone call a day in the week before competition. Contestants live in an undisclosed location during the week before the pageant...
...Alamos scientist suspected of divulging the sensitive data on the ultracompact W-88 warhead, revealed in 1995. It was not until mid-1996 that the FBI began to ask discreet questions and 1997 when agents went to the Justice Department for permission to search his computer and tap his phone. In 1997, Justice blocked FBI attempts to search Lee's computer, citing a lack of probable cause. The FBI asked again; Justice said no again. Not until February, as the story was about to break, did investigators get a look inside his hard drive. They were appalled to discover...
...company didn't help the Chinese discover what went wrong with their rocket, but simply reviewed China's own analysis. In general, though, it may actually serve American strategic interests to have China use U.S. technology. "There are lots of reasons why we'd want the Chinese to make phone calls on open equipment that we sold them rather than closed equipment that they made themselves," says Under Secretary of Commerce Bill Reinsch...
...think I backed the more plausible option. In fact, the allies' war in Yugoslavia has begun to acquire an alarming dimension of stupidity--from the manifest inability of NATO to read a Belgrade street map or phone book (lemme see, would it be under E for embassy or C for China?) to a certain overall Ben Tre logic (named for the Vietnamese town about which an American officer said, "It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it"), and drifting further on to an even deeper moral obtuseness...
...rights watchdog reports that authorities have questioned nearly 100 people to warn them against holding any memorials or demonstrations, and have kept at least 34 of them in detention. Police have paid visits to homes of parents who lost sons in the brutal crackdown, turning away visitors and cutting phone lines. In Shanghai, some foreign newspapers delivered to hotels had articles and pictures snipped out. CNN -- which Beijing remembers as the means by which the world watched China's repression live -- has been banned from offices and apartment buildings until next Tuesday, to avoid any news reports or memorials that...