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...West German cryptographer named Heinz-Helmuth Werner worked in the very heart of NATO headquarters in Brussels, dealing with the codes and secret signals that masked the classified information of the Western alliance. No one questioned his reliability. Two weeks ago, however, his cover was blown. Acting on a tip from West German intelligence, Belgian police searched Werner's home in a Brussels suburb and found transmitting devices and false- bottomed suitcases, as well as top-secret NATO documents. Werner is suspected of having been a spy since 1969, relaying the workings of NATO and Bonn to his masters...
...first satellites were tiny, antenna-studded devices that often weighed little more than the men and women who built them. But big was better as the space age progressed. The largest satellites today tip the scales at 15 tons, cost hundreds of millions of dollars and are roughly the size of Mack trucks. They must be put into orbit by giant rockets or space shuttles...
Ever notice how some North American baseball fielders seem to have gloves as big as bushel baskets? Not for long. This season major-league baseball plans to enforce an old rule, previously ignored, that bans any glove larger than 12 in. from heel to tip. The clampdown has sent glovemakers hustling to redesign mitts, some of which exceed...
...homelands. In coastal Ciskei, army officers overthrew the government of "President for Life" Lennox Sebe. In Bophuthatswana, in north-central South Africa, troops and police rushed in to quell a popular revolt against President Lucas Mangope. Security forces also braced for trouble in Venda, in the country's northern tip...
...inside tip for bettors--consensus among Harvard players is that Wisconsin will be the next national champion...