Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union labeled a leader of Soviet Jews seeking emigration as a CIA agent this month, in an attempt to destroy the credibility of Soviet Jewish dissenters, two speakers at a meeting on Soviet Jewish emigration said last night in the Freshman Union...
...under the command of Police Chief Maurice Cullinane. Attorney General Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were kept briefed, but the night-and-day negotiations were conducted by seven men: Cullinane; Deputy Police Chief Robert Rabe; Nick Stames, chief of the FBI's Washington field office; FBI Agent Pat Mullany, the bureau's most skilled hostage negotiator; plus three diplomats whose admirable intervention may well have brought about the salvation of the hostages. It was, at first glance, an unlikely trio to be bargaining with American gunmen. The three...
...Miklos Petrovics, 40, seized two employees of a Culver City, Calif, branch of Bank America, demanded that the bank's air be filtered through bird seed, that the manager "cleanse himself in the ocean" and that "everyone join hands, walk to the ocean and meditate." Result: an FBI agent talked him into surrendering...
...Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland over a rickety bridge scarcely able to sustain the weight of a handcar. Lancaster persists in this curious decision despite information that spontaneous remission is occurring...
...thought keeps nagging that this command decision is based on aesthetic rather than scientific, moral or political considerations. It may be that the agent charitably wishes to spare the world more banal dialogue. Or it may be that he wishes to spare his colleagues on the train any further embarrassment. Surely he, like the viewer, must wonder why Richard Harris, as the only doctor aboard, has been encouraged to dye his hair white-blond. And why Sophia Loren, as Harris' estranged wife, is working in a gray make up that makes her look plagued even before the dis ease breaks...