In addition, the recent disclosures about possible espionage and China's bellicose language directed at Taiwan have made it hard to get the talks started again.

Officials placed Captain Yee in solitary confinement for nearly three months in a naval brig while they completed their investigation into possible espionage.

Classified information that is not handled securely can be intercepted and even modified, making espionage possible from the other side of the world.

Hoover added investigation of possible espionage, sabotage, or subversion to the duties of field offices.

His comments were limited and self-protective in denying that the Administration had been slow to recognize possible Chinese espionage.

F.B.I. agents in the bureau's Washington field office are investigating the case as possible espionage, but officials would not characterize the seriousness of the investigation.

Mr. Lopez is enmeshed in a dispute over possible industrial espionage.

An inquiry into possible espionage at Los Alamos National Laboratory stirs concerns that science can sometimes function like a sieve.

Recently, worries over possible atomic espionage prompted widespread use of polygraph screening at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories, which are run by the Energy Department.

The Clinton Administration, in particular, has a great deal of explaining to do about its anemic response when it first learned of possible Chinese espionage.