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...installed in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic properties in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Kremlin's listening post in Cuba, for example, can pick up virtually all traffic from U.S. domestic communication satellites. Says an NSA official: "They just sit down there with their huge vacuum cleaner and suck everything up." In recent years the Soviets have developed computers that can cull such intelligence with much more sophistication than earlier models, and not just in search of defense secrets. "A computer can put together those bits and pieces," says an NSA official. "And even if the vast majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Use the Phone? | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...timid piss ant. Something moved in his center, urging itself upward from the grave. Seeds. Transfigured. Up, up! The crust of the grave began to crack. Isn't it grand what a little call to adventure can do for you, Bailey. Does Bailey love a challenge? Do eggsuckers suck eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Winning Rebel with a Lost Cause | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Finally, while the movie succeeds brilliantly as a children's film, it makes the mistake of occasionally trying to say more. Most of the obstacles facing Atreyu have Phantom Tollbooth-like names such as the Swamp of Sadness--where the muck will suck you in if you can't hold a stiff upper lip and keep the sadness from overcoming...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: That's Entertainment | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...over their work and casting a blue glow from the arcs of their rods; electrician laying out conduit in angular symmetry; and all of them anticipating the deliveries of the cement mixers queued up on Mass. Ave, and waiting to dump their contents into the pumps that will eagerly suck in the grey sludge...

Author: By Jonathan J. Doolan, | Title: Fixing A Hole | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...Senator's quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination has led him to harp constantly on America's bitter memory of its involvement in Southeast Asia. He sees Central America, and particularly El Salvador, as a quagmire that will once again suck in American blood and money endlessly and without course...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Too Many Vietnams | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

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