Word: scrambler
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...smugglers they are up against have almost unlimited funds. "They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light planes that are often faster and have better radar than Customs' planes. Firearms too: gun battles between feds and smugglers have erupted all along the Mexican border...
...some courtesy of a ham radio operator in Chicago who eavesdropped on one of the six conversations between President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. At the time, the two were aloft in separate aircraft, but Weinberger's Gulfstream C-20 transport had not yet been fitted with a scrambler fully compatible with that on Air Force One. "Weinberger made the comment that it may take shots across the bow," the brother of the ham operator told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes, I want that plane brought down in friendly territory." Pentagon...
Quarterback Brian White pilots Air Crimson, and although he might experience some turbulence from the Columbia pass rush, he's a good scrambler and an even better playmaker in the complex Multiflex offense. Further, White's passing--which was statistically impressive but somewhat erratic last year--improved in the off-season, and the senior signalcaller has looked sharp in preseason scrimmages...
...secure phone" at a cost of less than $2,000 a unit. Scrambling units in current use weigh about 70 lbs. and take up the space of two filing-cabinet drawers. Electronics experts expect the new units to employ small, inexpensive microcircuits built directly into the telephone receiver. The scrambler converts signals produced by conversation into electronic "white noise" that is meaningless until disencrypted, or unscrambled, on the other end of the line...
...characterizes himself as a "scrambler" in athletics. One highlight of his career, he says, was playing against Bill Cleary '58, Harvard's hockey coach, who was then playing for Harvard. Reflecting on his competition against Cleary, Saltonstall says, "He was simply a superior player...