Word: tripped
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...Vienna, Bloch had access to classified reports on the Soviet Union and sensitive cable traffic, as well as data on U.S. policy options and negotiating positions. Once in Washington, he was authorized, for example, to read the National Intelligence Daily, a compilation of intelligence reports. During a trip to Vienna earlier this year, he was allegedly videotaped handing a briefcase to a suspected Soviet agent on a city street. Bloch has been under 24-hour FBI surveillance for a number of weeks. Neighbors say that in early July they began to see men in parked cars staking out the fashionable...
...official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret contacts, Labor and Likud responded with a unified denial. This week a State Department delegation had been scheduled to travel to Israel in hopes of preserving the government and the peace plan, but the trip was scrubbed after U.S. officials received assurances that the Israelis would resolve the two difficult issues among themselves...
...long ago, the answer to the question "What should we do tonight?" seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...
...this week, President George Bush is expected to announce his vision for the U.S. space program. No one knows what Bush will say, but some members of his National Space Council, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle, reportedly favor a return to the moon, followed by a manned trip to Mars...
...most reasonable date for a Mars mission is 2020. That allows plenty of time for a measured approach and spreads the expenditure over a sensible period. It also gives NASA ample opportunity to choose the next goal after Mars -- exploration of the asteroid belt, for example, or a manned trip to the outer planets. Robot probes would have to study the Red Planet in depth first. One, the Mars Observer, is scheduled for a 1992 launch, and others would have to follow...