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WASHINGTON -- CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR R. James Woolsey wants to save his budget -- and he's willing to do a little high-tech showing off to accomplish it. In a closed-door session with members of Congress, he divulged the breathtaking power of America's expensive spy satellites. He revealed, among other things, that U.S. satellites carry 20 sorts of sensors, including electronic eavesdropping equipment that can pick up virtually any individual on-the-ground conversation...
...that Free Willy is a clever movie toy for the kid market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well...
...full scope of changes is not reflected simply in organizational tinkering. International conflict is increasingly becoming a struggle for economic and commercial success, for contracts, exports and market share. This means the successful nations are trying to steal high-tech secrets from one another. The Third World and former communist states do not have the money to buy or build themselves quickly to prosperity, so they are seeking a shortcut by stealing technological, scientific and commercial secrets from more advanced countries...
...geneticist at the University of California in San Francisco and a computer scientist at Yale were critically injured by mail bombs. Federal officials suspect a shadowy person or group, sometimes known as FC, which mailed explosive devices to campuses, airlines and high-tech companies in the late 1970s and '80s, killing one person and injuring...
...these assaults show, terrorism spans a spectrum from state-sponsored attacks to individual acts (like the exploits of the university and high-tech bomber) that straddle an ill-defined border between terrorism and plain ordinary crime. The mix, however, has been changing. The traditional tightly organized, centrally directed, usually left-wing and often state-financed networks of highly trained terrorists are in decline. The end of the cold war has deprived them of the money, weapons and safe havens that used to be provided by Moscow and Eastern Europe. Syria and Libya, traditional sources of training, direction and money, have...