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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schatz, Nicholson left Potsdam at lunchtime Sunday in a dark green Mercedes bearing an American flag. Both were dressed in camouflage fatigues, and Nicholson carried a set of powerful binoculars and a Nikon camera. They drove about 100 miles north to an area outside the town of Ludwigslust, the site of a training camp for a Soviet tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Division. The Soviets claim that the pair drove onto prohibited territory, ignoring warning signs in Russian and German; Washington insists that they stopped short of the base itself and that there were no signs...
Officials say the Soviets got the prime turf, with a view of several sensitive buildings, including the White House, because, when the sites were originally agreed upon, the land was available and microwave communication and its interception were not as sophisticated or as prevalent as they are today. Although the microwave problem is less severe now because of such countermeasures as coding sensitive messages, new listening devices have enhanced the Soviet embassy's physical advantages. A laser bugging technique that shoots beams against windows can decipher vibrations in the glass made by conversations. The Americans agreed to their lowly site...
Meanwhile, the Soviets have benefited from the Americans' free-market habits. The ten-acre U.S. site in Moscow will not be finished until 1988, but the Soviets' new Washington embassy compound was virtually complete by 1979. Explains a U.S. official: "American contractors have an incentive to finish as soon as possible. There are no similar incentives in the Soviet Union." The U.S. refuses to allow the Soviets to complete the interior of their new building and move from their old ornate brick embassy four blocks from the White House until Soviet crews finish the American facility in Moscow...
Meets have been held regularly, every other year, since 1921, with the site alternating from one side of the Atlantic to the other...
...Nuzi, a site in upper Mesopotamia, was once a provincial center of the mysterious Hurrian people whose writings continue to baffle archaeologists. The Semitic Museum's collection of Nuzi artifacts is the largest in the world, according to museum Director Frank M. Cross...