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Moscow -- Baikonur, Moscow'S PRIME SPACE LAUNCH FACILITY, has been in chaos for the past two and a half years, with persistent theft of gold-plated electronic parts from space rockets and satellites. Now, say recent U.S. visitors to Baikonur, there are pilferers in the pantry. Cosmonauts complain that thieves have raided the supply of specialty foods prepared for their comrades on the orbiting Mir space station. Canned meats, bread, oranges and borscht have mysteriously -- but, in this land of privation, not surprisingly -- vanished from the rocket manifests...
...first asserted that "the requirements of the theft law are such that you have to prove that...the property is wrongfully taken from its rightful possessor. In this instance, the paper gave up its possession by placing the papers in libraries...Second you have to prove value...
Harvard has made some efforts to keep up withsecurity problems associated with network use. Inthe 1992-93 Handbook for students, rules aboutstudent use of computers dealt primarily withconcerns of plagiarism and theft of electronicmaterials...
...days of the Eisenhower administration. At one time or another we have owned a Shetland pony, dug a swimming pool, leased a summer cottage at Lake Tahoe, and given generously to the Israel General Fund . . ." Inwardly, he is trying to come to grips with an irrational act of petty theft he committed against a man who could have advanced his career -- an act that will leave him both professionally shaken and curiously liberated...
...Vault still exists, but it no longer contains anything of prurient value. Along with the Widener X-cage, it contains "high-risk, high-theft" material, including rare books, old books and "XM" books, which are miniature books a few, inches long. No nudie pictures, though...