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...devices. After a briefing from Administration officials last week, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, "The loss was substantial." The Soviets apparently placed sensors of some sort inside the workings of certain typewriters. Electronic-eavesdropping specialists in Washington speculate that the Soviets somehow encoded the machines' typing function, giving each character a distinguishing electronic or magnetic signature. These signals may have been transmitted to antennas planted in the embassy's exterior walls and in turn carried to a listening post located safely away from U.S. diplomatic property...
...Soviet workers halted work for several weeks on the U.S. embassy to protest American use of an X-ray machine to detect structural flaws. The Soviets said it was hazardous to workers' health, but it became obvious that they were more concerned with the machine's real function: locating eavesdropping bugs that workers might be secreting in the walls...
...Historical Commission. If the staff finds the building architecturally significant or important, in the context of its neighborhood, a public hearing can be held, the demolition delayed up to six months, and, if sufficient interest develops, the City Council may designate the building a protected landmark. One function of this procedure is to allow public input in development decisions and prevent unanticipated destruction of significant building. This is a public process that Harvard must participate in, and it is in no way to be confused with the purposes of the National Register study...
...museum officially reopened to the public but lacked sufficient funds to display its exhibits. As a result, the University closed the public galleries and rented most of the building's space to the Center for International Affairs. Despite financial neglect by the University, the museum continued to function on a research center for Semitic studies and its collections swelled with newfound materials from excavations in the Middle East...
...things about the MX missile that detractors rarely criticize is the way it performs. Though still an experimental weapon (its full name is Missile Experimental), in seven operational tests the MX has given every indication that it can ably carry out its assigned function: conveying up to ten nuclear warheads to separate targets over ranges that exceed 8,000 miles. The missile, which is 71 ft. long, 92 in. in diameter and weighs 190,000 lbs. at launch, fires through four stages. In the final phase, a 4-ft.-long "bus," steered by an on-board guidance system and small...