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...ongoing broad survey of the terrain below, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and other U.S. intelligence chiefs rely on spy satellites. Using precision-tooled, high-resolution lenses, a satellite can take a remarkably clear photograph of a one-foot object from 100 miles overhead. The pictures, which are recorded in black and white, color or infrared, may be transmitted almost instantaneously to ground stations in the U.S. The satellite is also equipped with electronic listening devices that can pick up military and government radio messages and store them on endless miles of tape...
WATCHING PETER SELLARS' Much Ado About Nothing is like walking across a room blindfolded--it's easy if you're well acquainted with the terrain but painful and confusing if you're not. Sellars has assaulted Shakespeare's script with the aid of a talented but small troupe, and of the author's carefully pointed satires and balanced symmetries he has left only fuzzy outlines...
ITHAD BEGUN, Around the perimeter of the main construction site, but mostly from the east where the terrain was easier, groups of "CD people" carried ladders, ropes and blankets (for protection from the barbed wire). "They're everywhere!" a LILCO official reportedly said as he watched them arrive via closed circuit television monitors in the utility's security trailer. They trudged along the fence until they found a nice spot to go over, wished each other and the support--SHAD lawyers, medics, etc.--good luck, then did what they came...
...candidly of his new job: "This is a different kind of undertaking for me. The reason I've been good in Washington-if I have been good-is that I know all the nuances of this place. I move well around all the pitfalls because I know the terrain. Now I'm moving into an area where I don't know the terrain...
...protect fragile permafrost from being rutted by tire tracks, much of the Dempster is built on an elevated roadbed that rises as high as 6 ft. above the terrain. Thus it becomes difficult, as well as illegal, to pull off the highway and pitch a tent for the night, except at the sanctioned sites...