Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shcharansky's widespread contacts with foreign journalists proved to be his downfall. Anxious to cut off the dissidents' opportunities of gaining publicity for their cause in the West, the Soviets arrested Toth on a Moscow street last June as a Soviet scientist handed him a paper on a seemingly harmless topic, parapsychology. During four menacing interrogations, Toth was repeatedly asked about his meetings with Shcharansky; he strongly denied receiving any sensitive scientific material from Shcharansky. Before his release from prison, Toth was obliged to sign a protocol, or transcript of his interrogation, whose accuracy he could not verify because...
Will the Kremlin leaders succeed in terrorizing dissidents into silence with show trials like Shcharansky's? The consensus among both dissidents and Sovietologists abroad appears to be that they will live to fight another day. "The publicity given the trials is very encouraging," said Computer Scientist Valentin Turchin, 47, who was a prominent human rights activist before he emigrated to New York City last year. Although the Soviet press has hardly mentioned the protests in Western Europe and the U.S., news of them was beamed to millions in the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations...
...chemin defer tables, at $2,000 a deal. At least one turf-preoccupied London bus driver became famous for tooling past passenger queues and rushing instead to the betting shops along his route. Not surprisingly, Gamblers Anonymous operates a 24-hour rescue service in Britain. Says the respected British scientist and public policy analyst, Lord Rothschild: "Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but I think we are a nation of gamblers...
...Scientist sues over clone book
...directly into computers so that all messages would be automatically encoded and decoded at the terminals. Still, the Government clearly does not want to go too far. Only recently the National Security Agency, the U.S.'s chief cryptographic arm, tried briefly to keep a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee scientist from patenting a new coding device. It also apparently exerted behind-the-scenes pressure to make the IBM system less secure than it might have been. It fixed the length of the key at 56 bits of computer information rather than, say, 128, which would have been far more difficult...