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Cambridge politicos also said that Clinton, a former postman who barely won the last spot on the City Council in the 1983 election, is especially vulnerable this election year because city council newcomer Alfred W. LaRosa could steal some of Clinton's East Cambridge votes...
...outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and 1980, the militants trampled and burned an American flag and chanted, "Death to Israel and America, the Great Satan." Though their hatred of the U.S. was genuine enough, one purpose of their demonstration in the early summer heat was to steal a little thunder from Amal, with whom they are in conflict for the leadership of Lebanon's 1 million Shi'ite Muslims...
...Thieves steal with impunity, but it is not much use complaining to the police, who do little except direct traffic these days. It is occasionally possible to protest to whatever militiamen control the neighborhood; they sometimes catch a criminal and deal out rough justice. Then again, the robbers might be their comrades. For self-protection, many Beiruti men -- even if they , are not affiliated with one or another militia -- carry guns tucked under their belts, and women have neat little .38s stashed away in their purses...
...Stealing high-tech secrets is nothing new; the Soviets have been doing it since at least the 1930s, when Communist agents made off with Western inventions like Eastman Kodak's formula for developing color pictures. In the late '40s the Russians even managed to steal atomic secrets. But in the 1960s, as the U.S. outmatched the Kremlin's big missiles with more accurate ones, Soviet spies were ordered by their masters to make high tech their No. 1 target. It is U.S. computer technology that the Soviets truly covet, for the ability to process masses of information in milliseconds...
...Soviets decide what to buy or steal by wading through the flood of technical journals and documents freely available in the U.S. Specialized translators at the Soviet State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT) assess some 1.5 million scientific papers a year. A favorite source: Aviation Week and Space Technology, a trade journal so informative that it is known as "Aviation Leak." Several dozen copies of the magazine are put on a plane to Moscow every week. They are translated in mid-flight...