Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between Marine boot camp and Outward Bound. In one platoon at the M.C.R.D., half the recruits admitted they were afraid of heights. Now they are about to endure what the Marines call the "slide for life," clambering up a 35-ft.-high wooden tower and then descending headfirst down wires that stretch across a muddy ditch. A recruit clings like a frightened tree sloth to the wire. Then, slowly, his grip loosens and he plunges into the muddy water. "You just let go. You didn't even try," snaps the angry instructor. "Back to the squad bay, Private...
...past several weeks, American technicians have been feverishly searching the U.S. embassy in Moscow for bugs that might have been planted by Soviet agents let in by Marine guards. So far, they have found nothing tangible. "Not a microphone, not a transmitter, not even a wire," says one knowledgeable source...
...long time American experts have worried about mysterious low-level microwaves that have apparently been beamed at the embassy building. One explanation involves a possible type of snooping that does not require hidden transmitters in the building. Mysterious cavities along with configurations of steel rods and wire mesh have been found in the walls of the new embassy complex. It is theoretically possible that the microwaves could somehow pick up the reverberations that emanate from within the walls of a building; a computer would then analyze those reverberations...
Pippert has approached journalistic truth in ways he says were criticized as unconventional. As UPI's Middle East bureau chief, he beefed up coverage of the West Bank, filling the wire with short, three-to-four paragraph dispatches about conditions in the controversial Israeli territory...
Friends and acquaintances are dragged before the People's Court and sentenced to be hanged with piano wire. Others kill themselves or slip off to the sanctuary of their family castles. But the spunky aristocrat remains at her job with a government information office, where there is less danger from the Gestapo than from Allied bombs. Her final months of war are spent as a nurse in Austria. A year later, she marries an American Army officer in a traditional Russian Orthodox service, with a French count and a German prince holding the wedding crown...