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Andropov altered the stereotype of the ham-fisted Soviet spy in the ill-fitting suit by encouraging KGB recruiters to go after the best that the Soviet academic world had to offer. KGB foreign agents grew more adept at pilfering high technology and stepped up efforts to spread Moscow's influence around the globe through propaganda and disinformation. But Turkish Gunman Men met Ali Agca's bungled attempt to kill Pope John Paul II in May 1981 tarnished the KGB's new image. Suspicions of a KGB link in the papal plot through Bulgarian surrogates gave rise...
...great political error," said a Latin American diplomat referring to the visa denial. "People are always worrying that Reagan does not know how to play this delicate game of international relations." Such concerns are hardly new; the Administration has proven remarkably adept at sending the wrong signals in the past, particularly concerning Central America. But what makes last week's two "initiatives" so grating is the fact that Washington botched one clear cut opportunity to reduce tensions in the region and soured the fruit one long term policy had begun to bear...
Taiwan has rapidly diversified its economy, moving into the manufacture of products as varied as computers and catchers' mitts. The Taiwanese have been adept at dispersing industry throughout the island to provide job opportunities for rural people as well as city dwellers. Taiwan's chief weakness may be its dependence on U.S. markets; American purchases account for 40% of exports. Said Chen: "Without the U.S. recovery, Taiwan would have been in very bad shape...
...sporsely, and is often hesitantly mundane, as if the conversants had only recently recovered the use of thier tongues after an enforced silence, and weren't exactly sure what should be said. Humor is a welcome leavening in such situations, and Bobbie Ann Mason's "Graveyard Day" is particularly adept at keeping readers alert...
Last weekend the President contemplated what sort of adviser each candidate would make, and he was inclined to pick a cool-headed team player over a potential power grabber. Reagan's apparent favorite for the post, McFarlane, 46, was adept and unflamboyant as Clark's deputy. "When you finish adding up the objective qualities," a senior White House official says, "Bud McFarlane comes up with the most points." A graduate of the Naval Academy, he came to the White House to be an assistant first to President Nixon, then to Kissinger and later Scowcroft...