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...radical state like Iran, Libya or Iraq likely to buy a bomb and hand it over to terrorists. "If you just spent $300 million on something," asks a State Department specialist, would you turn it over to a band of ( terrorists "or would you keep it for your own protection?" He also wonders if Iran could keep secret forever the transfer of a nuclear weapon to Islamic militants. Tehran would have to be certain it did not leave fingerprints on the deal, or the country could become the target of reprisals -- possibly nuclear. "God help the state that gave terrorists...
...that Polyakov sought contact with FBI counterintelligence agents in Manhattan, who dubbed him Top Hat and marveled at their good fortune. "He was a big catch, and went on for a very long time," says James Nolan, formerly the FBI's top Soviet counterintelligence specialist. "There aren't many who start out as medium-grade officers and rise to the rank of general...
...listening post in Rangoon, Polyakov gave the CIA everything the Soviets collected from there on the Vietnamese and Chinese armed forces. Rotated back to Moscow as head of the GRU's China section, he photographed crucial documents tracking that country's bitter split with Moscow. A CIA specialist on Sino-Soviet relations drew on rich detail from a Soviet source -- whom he learned just last week was Polyakov -- that enabled the analyst to conclude confidently that the Sino-Soviet split would persist. The paper was used by Henry Kissinger, helping him and Nixon forge their 1972 opening to China...
...Politically the R.P.F. has no interest in seeking reprisals," comments Jose Kagabo, a specialist on East Africa at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. "It has already fought its war, and now seeks to prove that it was right -- giving it greater moral and political authority. That makes national reconciliation a must, and I think you'll be seeing Hutu members and supporters of the government traveling to refugee camps soon to ask Rwandans to return home...
Many area residents interested in the Jupiter collision turned out Thursday night at Harvard for a public viewing of the collision, according to Julie D. Corliss, public affair specialist at the Center for Astrophysics...