In October 1978, the CIA forecast that the Vatican's elevation of the archbishop of Poland to the papacy earlier that year would make it "even more difficult'' for Moscow to check Poland's political gravitation to the West. "The election of a Polish pope will contribute to an increase in nationalism in East Europe,'' it said. Two years later the Solidarity movement in Poland sparked waves of social protest that led to the downfall of communism in Poland and, years later, throughout East Europe.

Western news reports about advances in U.S. stealth aircraft technology, starting in the mid-1970s, may have helped the Soviet Union guide its military intelligence efforts. But such reporting also "complicates the job faced by those Soviet analysts struggling to determine the capabilities of U.S. stealth systems,'' an August 1988 CIA report said. The blending of fact and speculation in news accounts kept the stealth program "shrouded in mystery'' and perpetuated false rumors, it said.

A report on Cuba in March 1963, just months after the missile crisis that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war, saw potential military danger in Cuba's announced plan to build a Soviet-financed fishing port in the Bay of Havana. The CIA feared the port would provide Moscow with a base that could extend the effective range of operations of trawler types of vessels for military and space surveillance missions along the U.S. Atlantic coast.

See this page at the CIA site for info on how to access the documents: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/Princeton_Collection.html

Her owners acted swiftly after foot and mouth was discovered near Lockerbie, around 70 miles from Dolly's farm.

"She is in her own accommodation in special housing," said Harry Griffin, a member of the team which cloned Dolly at the Roslin Institute.

The research centre, which has become a popular visitor attraction since Dolly came into being in July 1996, has also been closed in line with Government regulations.

But Mr Griffin warned that the barn reserved for Dolly and the other cloned sheep at Roslin would not protect them if foot and mouth did strike on the farm.

"She is along with several other of the cloned sheep, but that is not going to protect her over and above any other animals on the farm," he added.

Professor Ian Wilmut, of the institute, said the precautions were the same as those being taken at other farms, but acknowledged that Dolly was a special case.

He said: "She is valuable to us, but any farmer would be concerned to try to prevent the infection of animals on their farm.

"We are doing whatever other people have done - we are as vulnerable as anyone else and we are taking sensible precautions."

Last week PPL Therapeutics said it had succeeded in creating a beating heart cell from a cow's skin cell.

So-called stem cell research is being used to develop treatments for diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

LONDON March 7, 2001 (Reuters) - Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel perched 8,366 feet high in the Peruvian Andes, could collapse at any time, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday.

The earth beneath the hallowed city, listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and one of Latin America's best known tourist attractions, is shifting and at risk of a major landslide.

Japanese geologists who have been monitoring the movement said the back slope is moving downward at about 0.4 inches per month.

"This is quite fast, and it's a precursor stage of a rockfall or rock slide," said Kyoji Sassa of Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute.

"It's not possible to say exactly when the landslide might occur, but that will be the focus of the next stage of our research."

Sassa and his team believe the landslide could destroy all of Machu Picchu. Rockfalls have already damaged some structures.

"There is a distortion line running north-south inside the citadel and buildings along the line show signs of damage," the magazine reported.

The Japanese researchers are trying to find a way to preserve Machu Picchu, which is visited by more than 1,000 tourists a day.

Machu Picchu was abandoned at the time of the 16th century Spanish conquest. In 1911, U.S. archaeologist Hiram Bingham rediscovered the ruins, which historians regard as an important religious center for the Inca empire.

Yuri Karash, an expert on the Russian space program, said there was a possibility that micro-organisms, which have spent the last 15 years mutating in isolation aboard Mir, could present a threat if they survived the fall to Earth.

"I wouldn't overstate it ... but a realistic problem exists," Karash told a news conference.

Karash, who has undergone cosmonaut training and is an aerospace advisor, said his conclusions were based on research carried out by Russia's Institute of Medical and Biological Problems.

Researchers have said that the fungi could be especially virulent if mixed with earth varieties that attack metal, glass and plastic.

Western health officials have in the past expressed concerns about micro-organisms that could be brought back to earth after a Russian microbiologist 13 years ago discovered the first of many aggressive forms of fungi inhabiting Mir.

Russian space officials have played down the threat, but visitors to the orbiter have found numerous types of fungi behind control panels, in air-conditioning units and on dozens of other surfaces.

Though surprisingly destructive, they give off corrosive agents like acetic acid and release toxins into the air.

The aging orbiter is due to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean tentatively around March 20 and about 1,500 fragments are expected to reach Earth, some at speeds high enough to smash through 6.5 feet of reinforced concrete.

The financial news service Prime-Tass quoted a source at the Rosaviakosmos space and aviation agency as saying details of the third-party risk policy were being finalized.

But an insurance industry official told Reuters three Russian firms would insure the risk. The official named them as Megaruss and Industrial-Insurance Company, with 40 percent of the risk each, and AVIKOS with the remaining 20 percent.

The risk was re-insured, the official said.

Space expert Yuri Karash sparked new fears Tuesday when he said mutant space fungi clinging to Mir could be dangerous if they survived the space station's passage through the atmosphere.

Russian officials have said they are confident they can bring Mir safely down within the target zone.

Leonid Gorshkov, one of Mir's designers, told a news conference Tuesday that the Earth was bombarded by hundreds of objects from space each year, ranging from meteorites to spent booster rockets, and that to the best of his knowledge no one had ever been injured by them.

The 15-year-old station, once the pride of the Soviet space program, is supposed to splash down some 3,000 km (1,850 miles) east of New Zealand's southern tip and away from major sea and air routes.

Most of the craft should be burned up by friction during its journey through the atmosphere, but up to 40 tons of debris are expected to reach Earth.

HOUSTON March 7, 2001 (AP) — A jury Wednesday ruled that former stripper and Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and the oldest son of her late Texas oilman husband are entitled to none of his multimillion-dollar estate.

The jury affirmed that the oilman, J. Howard Marshall II, had named his younger son, E. Pierce Marshall, 61, as his sole heir.

Smith, 33, had already dropped her claim on her later husband's estate earlier in the trial, after a federal bankruptcy judge in California awarded her $475 million. But the verdict in Texas could ultimately undermine the California ruling, which is still under appeal.

After Smith dropped her claim in Texas, the five-month trial was reduced mostly to a battle between the two Marshall brothers.

The jury found that Los Angeles businessman J. Howard Marshall III, 63, had no oral agreement with his father to receive a portion of the estate. The jury also found that Smith had no agreement with her late husband to get half his fortune. She was not named in any will documents.

The jury also ordered J. Howard Marshall III to pay more than $30 million in damages to his brother and other family members for interfering with their inheritance rights.

Smith met J. Howard Marshall II in 1991 when she worked as a stripper in Houston. She was 26 and he was 89 when they were married in 1994. He died 14 months later.

Pierce Marshall said he hopes Wednesday's verdict will help overturn the judgment in California, which he is contesting.

Smith's lawyer, Tom Cunningham, said the jury did not get to hear his client's full side of the story.

Smith took the stand for five days, telling the jury her husband promised to leave her half his estate and to adopt her son from a previous marriage. She produced no evidence to support either claim.

She caused a stir on her last day of testimony, Feb. 14, by wearing a top with the word "Spoiled'' beaded across her chest in rhinestones. Smith explained her husband liked to spoil her on Valentine's Day.