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...that carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the solar system, appearing in planets, asteroids, meteors and comets, often in the form of hydrocarbons. Gold believes that when the primordial gaseous swirl condensed into the sun and its satellites, large amounts of hydrocarbons settled in the earth's interior. Some of those compounds seeped upward into porous rocks and sediments, says Gold, and became such accessible pockets of riches as the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula. He predicts that if greater depths were mined, fuel reserves far beyond current estimates would be found...
California's Yosemite National Park is not the usual place to track celebrities. But campers in the glacier-carved valley found themselves asking for autographs when Robert Redford showed up along with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel for the formal dedication of Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,900-ft. peak named for the great wilderness photographer. Redford, 48, talked about his concern for protecting natural areas and the impression Yosemite made on him when he first saw it at age ten. "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security," he declared. "Defense...
British officials investigating the obituary now believe it may have been a coded message to East German spies operating in Britain to go for deep cover. The day before the item appeared, Scotland Yard arrested two East Germans, Reinhard Schulze, 32, an interior designer, and his wife Sonja, 35, a translator, and charged them with various offenses under Britain's Official Secrets...
...scandal in a decade. For four years he directed the country's efforts to track, foil and capture East German spies. That background will be invaluable to spymasters in East Germany, who run an estimated 3,000 agents in West Germany alone. Says Hans Neusel, State Secretary for the Interior Ministry: "If Tiedge passes on all his knowledge, this will mean immense damage for West Germany's intelligence work." West German authorities believe that he may have helped East German spies evade detection. Police are still searching for three suspected East German agents, one of them the personal secretary...
Trying to limit the damage, the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl notified NATO allies of the security breach, while the Interior Ministry began an investigation. So far, politicians have refrained from blaming Kohl, and his government does not appear to be in immediate political danger. Gerhard Jahn, a member of parliament from the opposition Social Democratic Party, deplored the defection but added that he believed the government "doesn't want to hide anything...