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LEE P. BROWN

Lee P. Brown, 55, appointed by President Bill Clinton on 28 April to head the Office of National Drug Control [...]

PENTAGON MAJOR SPY STUDY

Psychological profiling is often considered "esoteric" and not a very operational or effective measure for identifying terrorists among airline passengers, [...]

CLOSING MILITARY BASES MAY BE TOO EXPENSIVE

The planned closure of several military bases to save money [...]

SRI International (fax 1 415 859 2844; e-mail [email protected]) in [...]

HACKER UP AGAINST THE FBI?

The federal indictment recently unsealed against computer hacker Kevin L. [...]

ALL-METAL PERMANENT COMPUTER MEMORY DEVICE

The American company Bell Communications Research, Inc. has developed an [...]

The Ninth Annual Computer Security Applications Conference is being organized [...]

PENTAGON'S "SECOND RATE" GERM WARFARE

Computer searches through the scientific literature concerning germ warfare indicate [...]

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NEW LIABILITIES & NEW USERS

Although recent statistics indicate that every major long distance telephone company in the United States reported a decrease in toll [...]

CLINTON EXPANDS HIS PFIAB

President Bill Clinton is expanding the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) from 8 to at least 12 members to [...]

COMPUTERIZED FINGERPRINT CONTRACT

Printrak International Inc. of Anaheim, California, has announced that its [...]

BATF IN FOR MORE TROUBLE AT WACO?

Already in court for racial discrimination (I.N. n. 211) and [...]

AIR FORCE REVERSES ITSELF ON ASIAN AMERICAN

The U.S. Air Force has reversed its decision to lift [...]

FIRST MAJOR ARREST IN BOGUS SPARE PARTS MARKET

Former Customs agent Roy Robinson's call for a hardline approach [...]

Guest editors John C. Knight of the University of Virginia [...]

STAR WARS INTO BATTLE

On 22 April at China Lake, California, Tactical Exploitation of [...]

POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

Two reports criticizing the drug war have come out at [...]

PROFESSIONAL & FEDERAL HACKERS

According to recent press reports, a federal "Tiger Team" of [...]