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...steal the blueprints for a top-secret airborne spy camera. The Israelis agreed to settle the case by paying $3 million in damages. The French intelligence service recruited moles in the European branch offices of IBM, Texas Instruments and other U.S. electronics companies. A decade ago, an FBI sting operation caught senior-level executives at Hitachi and Mitsubishi trying to buy confidential information on the latest IBM computer chip. After initially refusing to submit to U.S. jurisdiction, both companies pleaded guilty to charges connected with the theft...
Cambridge's License Commission has set penalties for the 15 package stores caught selling alcohol to underage, undercover constables during last month's sting operation...
This time, it was the fact that junior Co-Captain Joey Alissi had just scored the equalizer 13 seconds before Bryant's game-winner that made the defeat sting so badly...
Since the sting, the owners said they havecracked down on selling to minors. None of four ofthe stores closest to Harvard caught in thesting--Cardullo's, Lil' Peach, Louie's Superette,Broadway Market--sold alcohol to a underagereporter in an independent Crimson investigationthis week...
...addition, Milosevic appears immune to the sting of world condemnation that is often effective in other situations. Like leaders of Nazi Germany and many Communist countries, he is adept at manipulating negotiations and at baffling Western diplomats who view negotiations as a give-and-take process...