Secure phones eyed under $44 million NSA contract
government officials push secure, scrambling phones to protect national secrets as NSA plans delivery of prototypes by 1987. RCA Motorola and AT&T picked to develop, with unit costs plunging toward $2000, enabling 500000 public and contractor devices and up to 2 million in private sector use.
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Washington
National Security Agency
Defense
NSA
Patrick J. Leahy
D-Vt
Senate Intelligence Committee
Reagan
Weinberger
Larry
RCA
Motorola
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Sharp
Donald Duck
Leahy
Intelligence Committee
Hart Senate
Capitol Hill
Seattle eyeing special park for street people and drinkers
Seattle mayoral task force discusses a Boston like park and shelter to let chronic alcoholics drink and sleep off binges, with police to crack down elsewhere. Budget includes 150000 for the shelter as officials seek a site. skeptics warn of inviting drunken crowds.
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Seattle
Ken Cole
Downtown Emergency Services Center
Cole
Phil Showstead
King County
Boston
Charles Royer
Pine Street
Showstead
Tom Byers
Roger
Norm Rice
Rice
Stampede of Cattle After Truck Crash Sparks Cow Rescue
A livestock truck overturned on Interstate 10 near Tallahassee sending 100 steers loose. Police, cowboys, dogs, and an airplane rounded up the herd over five hours. About 20 cattle were killed. the driver, Timothy Brown, 31, of Dalhart, Texas, was transporting 100 head to Texas from South Florida.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Tom Crawford
Interstate 10
Timothy Brown
Dalhart
Texas
Crawford
Brown
South Florida
Quincy
New York City auctions Audubon prints for education fund
New York City sold a 435 print set of The Birds of America by John James Audubon at Sotheby's for 1 761 842 dollars to launch a trust fund to educate the public about New York history and archives. The city will use the interest to support education and pilot programs showing students city history videos based on Dutch era materials.
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New York
John James Audubon
Sotheby's Auction House
Sotheby’s
Audubon
Albany
Eugene J. Bockman
Records and Information Services
Peter Swan
Sotheby's
Susan Pinsky
Ms. Pinsky
Selma
Montgomery
Ala
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