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A serious security lapse that Hood had taken care never to point out.

A serious security lapse occurs before luggage reaches the airports.

Even E.T.S.'s push into the new world of computerized testing suffered a serious security lapse.

Mr. Hanssen's arrest confronted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a serious security lapse and one of its most embarrassing counterintelligence failures in recent years.

A secret inspection of the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory in California turned up serious security lapses last spring, including poor protection of plutonium, a Congressional report shows.

The program was established after the Gulf War and, reports the LAT , had in its short lifespan identified serious security lapses at 47 percent of the nation's 104 commercial nuclear reactors.

The detention center in lower Manhattan where aliens are held before being deported has serious security lapses and is not equipped to deal with the criminals who are often held there, according to a Federal report released today.

Wong then had cited a serious security lapse as the reason for the escape and revealed that Mas Selamat escaped when he was being taken to the toilet before a meeting at the Family Visit Room.

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi turned into an emotional political issue today as lawmakers charged the Government with "criminal negligence," a "whitewash" and serious security lapses in the protection of the former Prime Minister.

In that memo, Mr. Alpert said that he and the lawyers also believed that the airline's chances were "slim to nonexistent" of escaping a jury verdict of "willful misconduct" for ignoring serious security lapses.

The departure of the Shin Bet head, known only by the initial, "K," had been widely considered a matter of time in view of the serious security lapses that led to the assassination of Mr. Rabin on Nov. 4.

Last month, a study of domestic security by a group led by former Senators Gary Hart and Warren B. Rudman concluded that the failure to adequately inspect cargo ships entering United States ports was one of the government's most serious security lapses.

Later in the war, British cryptologists learned to fully exploit a serious security lapse associated with German weather reports: they were broadcast from weather ships to Germany in lower-level ciphers, easy to decrypt, then retransmitted to U-boats at sea in Enigma, thus furnishing Bletchley Park with regular cribs.