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Another chapter was added to the nine-year old mystery of Joan L. Webster this week, when police uncovered a body in Hamilton, Mass., that resembles the missing Harvard graduate student...
...police were quick to point out that they had not yet received a positive identification of the remains, saying that chances are good they are not those of Webster, who disappeared in November...
There is already evidence that the KGB is increasing, not cutting back, its espionage activity. Says Webster: "We see signs that the Soviets are more aggressive, more robust; there are more pitches being made." He adds that there is a greater Soviet effort to recruit agents both in the U.S. and in Europe. One recent Soviet defector has disclosed that the KGB's Department T, which specializes in industrial espionage, illicitly gathered 25,000 technical documents and 4,000 pieces of machinery from 1984 to 1988. Several African intelligence services are cooperating with the KGB in their countries in attempts...
...steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, additional manpower will be needed to track the inspectors. Says the CIA's Webster: "We don't hear where the resources are coming from...
...reacted to the Chiles news with the rhetorical question, "Is God a Republican, or what?" Martinez needs all the Democratic help he can get. He nearly self-destructed last October, when he tried unsuccessfully to become the nation's first Governor to take advantage of the Supreme Court's Webster decision and push restrictive new abortion laws through the Florida legislature. He lost resoundingly, and his negatives soared. Afterward, more Florida voters (24%) said they would vote for "anyone but Martinez" than said they would vote for him (22%). Still, Florida's G.O.P. moneymen are sticking with...