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...secrets without even bothering to hire away another company's employees. They simply use the prospect of a job to pump information from eager applicants during interviews. That technique has long been in wide use among the 1,300 or so high-tech firms packed together in 250-sq.-mi. Silicon Valley. William H. Bell, a convicted spy who sold military secrets to a Polish agent, described the approach to a congressional committee in May. Said he: "Within the avionics industry, it is a common practice for all companies to obtain secrets of their competitors by the same techniques...
...occasion was the opening of nearly 3,000 sq. mi. of the Oklahoma Territory to settlement. For decades, the U.S. Government had been content to use the land, which it had acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, as a resettlement ground for displaced Indians. But after the Civil War, the white settlers began demanding parts of the territory. Cattlemen wanted to drive their herds to market along the Chisholm and Shawnee trails; America's new immigrants wanted land for farms. Ignoring Government restrictions, settlers known as boomers began to squat on lands in the territory...
Since 1976 the Algerian-backed guerrillas have been engaged in a bitter desert war with King Hassan II of Morocco over a 100,000-sq.-mi. former Spanish possession. At least 19 moderate African states were outraged at their organization's recognition of S.A.D.R., which they claim violated O.A.U. procedures...
...carriers, jets and helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Falkland Islands, although the game is most often played on West German real estate near the Iron Curtain...
...faucet basis, the suites are not as hugely expensive as they seem. A few small rooms rent for $145, just the thing for bodyguards. The Royal Suite has two living rooms, five bedrooms with at least ten closets, and seven bathrooms. Even so, some visitors find its 4,844 sq. ft. oppressively small. One sheik had to rent two other suites to accommodate his baggage...