Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gadfly, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, whom Clark had just finished interviewing for this week's cover story. Says Clark: "The real reason for Krimsky's expulsion was his coverage of the dissidents." That explains why reporting on men like Sakharov is such a complex and at times hazardous affair. Clark adds: "Correspondents and KGB agents are well known to one another, for every dissident event is well covered by both." Eastern Europe Correspondent David Aikman notes that U.S. journalists there are not only under perpetual surveillance, but in the past few weeks have suffered harassment and even physical abuse...
From the beginning, the Claustre affair was one of the more bizarre, bungled diplomatic efforts in French history. Claustre was captured in the spring of 1974 while exploring pre-Islamic tombs with a young French coopérant -roughly the equivalent of a U.S. Peace Corpsman-and a West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named...
...rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...
...surveying the route to Edwards, relocating telephone poles and overseeing the resurfacing of 16 kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...
...enough making a stripped-to-the-waist play for a book contract. Others have more powerful claims on him: a brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw him into the mainstream of life. In the end, they conspire with the superb Tom Courtenay to reveal Simon...