I found these paragraphs in a recent Space News interesting. They were at the end of an article titled "Military Officials Open To Using Civilian Links" in the July 3rd issue. "Officials said government police authorities have expressed concern that satellite telephone systems may enable people to conduct conversations that are out of the earshot of government investigators. This would be particularly true in an area where, for example, there were no gateway through which government investigators could tap into calls. "Iridium, Globalstar, Inmarsat-P and Odyssey all plan to include features to permit authorized eavesdropping, officials said. "``Iridium will include a leased land line to areas where there are now local gateways to permit monitoring,'' Johnson said. ``We are willing to put the technical capability to do this in the hands of the governments. They then will have to pay to have all those people listen to all those telephone calls.''" Ted Anderson