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...President's fate may now rest with a seven-member commission that has been poring over Waldheim's war record since September. Chaired by Hans Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, the panel has met for a week each month to sift 30 pounds of documents in the red silk-lined chambers of the Austrian State Archives. Scheduled to release its report on Feb. 2, the commission seems certain to go beyond the narrow question of whether Waldheim committed war crimes and to explore such issues as how much Waldheim knew and whether he acted to save lives...
...vital to continued progress in fast-changing fields like computers and lasers. But such openness provides the Soviets with valuable opportunities. For years, the large Soviet consulate in San Francisco has served as an intelligence center from which Moscow monitors Silicon Valley. Soviet agents routinely intercept scientists' telephone calls, sift through unclassified technical publications and, on occasion, plant moles in U.S. industries. For the most part, however, the transfer of technology takes place along quasi-normal lines: through firms in Europe, Japan or elsewhere that are used to transship the pilfered goods to Eastern Europe. For that reason, Western authorities...
...They can use the information, they just can't turn around and sell it again," Gilbert says. However clients could sift through Genome's DNA map to discover the genetic cause for a disorder and develop a cure for it, he says...
Scramble, Scramble: Harvard was plagued last season by the lack of an experienced quarterback. After two years of the competent--sometimes brilliant--Brian White, Crimson Coach Joe Restic had to sift through the depth chart to come up with a starting QB. David Landau, his opening game starter in '86, finished the season with 10 interceptions and zero touchdown passes...
...operators run water over the area to clean away the debris. This process exposes emerald-bearing white calcite veins. Miners are able to pick out the larger crystals, but most of the smaller ones have been washed down to shallow riverbeds below the mine, % where swarms of guaqueros sift through the mud in search of the precious stones. The most enterprising treasure hunters use dynamite and hand tools to burrow tunnels into places where a mining company has already excavated, trying to reach the white calcite veins...