Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised the Bonn Foreign Ministry by sending a messenger over with a package. He was returning the original top-secret files on the NATO-wide exercise "Wintex 73" (the plan of political and civilian emergency measures to be taken in case of war). A complete U.S. Sidewinder missile was stolen in 1967 from a West German NATO base, dismantled and then shipped in convenient pieces by ak freight to Moscow. By official reckoning, there are between 15,000 and 16,000 Communist agents operating in West Germany, more than in any other Western country. About 80% of them work...
...someone with religious or political convictions detonated four car bombs in Dublin and a town to the north, killing 28 people. The event gave special interest to Author McPhee's thesis, which is that right now one fairly skilled technician, using easily obtainable equipment and information, and easily stolen uranium 235 or plutonium 239, could make a nuclear fission bomb. The bomb certainly would be small enough to fit into a Volkswagen, and perhaps into a golf...
...longer at work as a nuclear physicist. He directs an ecological-research firm. He and McPhee travel about the country. He shows the author unguarded trucks rumbling down rural highways, loaded with weapons-grade uranium. They see manufacturing plants where enough fissionable material to blow up Manhattan could be stolen by one armed and determined man, or carried off bit by bit, undetected, by one unarmed employee...
...considerable ingenuity. According to the confession of one defendant, the thieves had managed to enter the Pope's quarters at the top of the Apostolic Palace in July 1969 while he was supposedly at his summer residence. The gang ransacked his rooms, unlocked his private elevator with a stolen key, ascended to a terrace and escaped over the rooftops. One of the accused argued that he could not possibly have been a member of the gang because his hemorrhoids would never permit him to slide through sewers and negotiate roofs and cornices as the burglars apparently...
...ruin experiments. Caryn Lum, 20, a Stanford University senior who was recently accepted by two medical schools, tells of a friend who placed his samples from a qualitative analysis laboratory in an oven to incubate overnight; when he went to check them in the morning, they were gone-presumably stolen by a rival. Other students resort to "dry-labbing": faking the results of experiments on paper. Despite the possibility of stiff penalties for those who get caught, cheating in examinations has become widespread...