高级英语听力 lesson 13

Lesson Thirteen

 Section One: News in Brief

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 1. A special committee of twelve senators today began the

 impeachment trial of Federal J   udge Harry 1 Claiborne. It's the first

 such proceeding 2 in fifteen years.  Claiborne is serving a jail sentence

 for tax evasion 3.

 2. President Reagan today continued his campaign for a drUg7free

 America.  He ordered mandatory 4 testing for federal workers in sensi-

 tive positions.  And he also sent Congress a legislative 5 package that

 would increase federal anti-drug spending by nine hundred million

 dollars, much of that on increased border patrols.  The President said

 the legislation is the federal government's way of just saying no to

 drugs.  "We're getting tough on drugs; we mean business.  To those

 who are thinking of using drugs, we say 'Stop.' And to those who

 are pushing drugs, we say 'Beware.' " Mandatory drug testing for

 some federal workers is the most controversial part of the President's

 plan.  It's been condemned 6 by some employee groups.

 3. One person was killed and more than fifty injured today in Paris

 when a bomb exploded at the drivers' permit office at police head-

 quarters.  It was the fourth blast in seven days in the French capital.

  Section Two: News in Detail

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       in Paris today, one person was killed and more than fifty were

  injured when a bomb exploded at police headquarters.  This is the

  fourth attack on a crowded public target in a week.  A police officer

  was killed yesterday while removing a bomb from a restaurant on

  the Avenue Champs Elysee.  Minutes after that incident, Prime Min-

  ister Jacques Chirac announced new security measures aimed at

  curbing 7 terrorist activities in, France.  Melodie Walker reports from

  Paris.

       A group calling itself 'the Committee for Solidarity 8 with Arab

  and Middle-Eastern Prisoners' has claimed responsibility for the

  current series of bombings in Paris, in addition to ten other attacks

  in the French capital over the past year.  The Committee has deliv-

  ered messages to news agencies in Beirut threatening to continue its

  bombing campaign in Paris until the French government agrees to

  release three men jailed in France on charges of terrorism.  One of the

  convicted prisoners, George lbraham Abdullah, is believed to be the

  leader of the Lebanese Army Faction 9 suspected of killing 10 a US mili-

  tary attache in Paris in 1982.  The French government has officially

  declared it will not release tht prisoners.  In response to the repeated

  attacks in Paris, Prime Minister Chirac last night announced new

  anti-terrorist measures: military patrols along the French boiders

  will be increased and, beginning today, all foreigners will require a

  visa to enter France.  Citizens of European Common Market coun-

  tries and Switzerland will be exempt 11 from the visa requirement.  But

  Americans planning to visit France will need to apply for visas at the

  nearest French consulate 12.  For an initial period of fifteen days, how-

  ever, emergency visas will be granted at French airports and other

  border checkpoints.  France has been plagued with terrorism at home

  and abroad in recent years.  In the past two weeks, three French

  members of the United Nations peace keeping force in Lebanon

  have been killed by remote-controlled bombs.  Today, France,called

  for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the

  role and safety of the force.  Seven French hostages in Beirut are also

  a major concern for the Chirac government.  Dominique Moazi, As-

  sociate Director of the French Institute for International Relations,

  says the bombings in Paris, the attacks on the UN troops, and the

  hostage situation are all indirectly 13 related.

      'I think there is a global goal, which is looked after, and that is

  to punish France for its involvement in Middle-Eastern affairs, ei-

  ther Lebanon or the war between Iran and Iraq.  And France is, at

  the same time, more visible than any other European actors, in

  Lebanon and in the Gulf 14.'

      According to Moazi, the long French tradition of granting polit-

  ical asylum 15 has made France more open and accessible to terrorist

  activities.

      "In the past we have given, unfortunately, the impression, which

  was maybe a reality, of being less resolute 16 in our treatment of terror-

  ist action than, for example, the Israelis.  So that combination of visi-

  bility, vulnerability, and lack of resolution has made us the ideal tar-

  get of terrorists now.'

      In a statement released today, President Francois Mitterand

  said, ' The fight against terrorism is the business of the entire

  nation.' But despite the govemment's determination to combat ter-

  rorism, the question of how to do it remains 17 unanswered.  For Na-

  tional Public Radio, this is Melodie Walker in Paris.

Section Three: Special Report

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      The United States Senate Intelligence Committee today released

 a report calling for sweeping 18 changes in US security policies and

 counter-intelligence, its first unclassified assessment 19 of recent spy

 cases.  The Committee says the damage done has cost billions of dol-

 lars, threatening America's security,as never before.  NPR's David

 Malthus has the story.

      The report states that the damage done from espionage 20 and lax

 security is worse than anyone in the government has yet acknow-

 ledged publicly.  It concludes that US military plans and capabilities 21

  have been seriously compromised, intelligence operations gravely

  impaired 22.  US technological 23 advantages have been overcome in some

  areas because of spying.  And diplomatic secrets were exposed to ad-

  versaries.  Vermont Democrat 24 Patrick Leahy is Vice-Chairman of

  the Senate Intelligence Committee.

       'The national security is many times threatened more by this

  than by the buildup of Soviet 25 arms, or the buildup of Soviet person-

  nel, or breakthrough in weapon development."

       The Committee report says foreign intelligence services have

  penetrated 26 some of the most vital parts of US defense 27, intelligence,

  and foreign policy structures.  The report cites a string of recent

  cases, including the Walker-Whitworth spy ring, which gave the So-

  viets the ability to decode 28 at least a million military communications.

  Despite some improvements by the Reagan Administration in securi-

  ty and tough talk over the last two years, the report also concludes

  that the administration has failed to follow through with enough

  specific steps to tighten 29 security, and that its counter-intelligence

  programs have lacked the needed resources to be effective.  Republi-

  can Dave Durenberger of Minnesota, Chairman of the Intelligence

  Committee, sums up the current situation this way:

       'Too many secrets, too much access to secrets, too many spies,

  too little accountability for securing our national secrets, and too lit-

  tle effort given to combatting the very real threat which spies repre-

  sent to our national security.'

       Senator Durenberger said the Committee found some progress

  has been made in toughening up security clearances 30 for personnel,

  and some additional resources have been devoted 31 to countering

  technical espionage, but he said much more needs to be done and he

  described the current security system as one 'paralyzed by bureau-

  cratic inertia 32.' The Committee makes ninety-five specific recom-

  me,ndations, including greater emphasis on re-investigations of

  cleared personnel, a streamlined classification system, more money

  for counter-intelligence elements of the FBI, CIA and the military

  services, and tighter controls on foreign diplomats 33 from hostile coun-

  tries.  The report cites FBI assessments 34 on how extensively the Sovi-

  ets use, diplomatic cover to hide spying activity.  There are

  twenty-one hundred diplomats, UN officials, and trade representa-

  tives from the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact 35 countries living in the

  United States.  And according to the FBI, 30% of them are profes-

  sional intelligence officers.  The Committee report also says the Sovi-

  et Union is effectively using United Nations organizations

  worldwide to conduct spying operations.  It says approximately eight

  hundred Soviets 36 work for UN agencies, three hundred of them in

  New York, and one fourth of those are working for the KGB or the

  Soviet military intelligence, the GRU.  Next week, the Reagan Ad-

  ministration is to deliver to. the Congress its, classified report on

  counter-intelligence.  I'm David Malthus in Washington.