Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Surveillance. Yet some Americans were warily questioning the wisdom of Ford's making such a trip at all; at moments he and Candidate Wyman rode standing up in an open limousine. Beside him was the usual complement of four Secret Service agents, including Agent Larry Buendorf, who had wrested the gun away from Fromme. Other agents were on the perimeter of the presidential entourage. A former prominent Manson family member, Linda Kasabian, was at her home a few miles from Milford, N.H., when Ford stopped there; but the Secret Service and a state police officer kept her under...
...ends Ian Fleming's delightful spy novel, From Russia with Love, with James Bond's fate left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison. "It comes from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish," an eminent neurologist tells Bond's boss. "It's terrible stuff and very quick...
...Marques, the country's capital. As head of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Machel, a onetime hospital orderly, helped lead the bloody ten-year struggle that brought over 400 years of Portuguese domination to an end. Simbine formerly worked as an underground Frelimo agent, spying on Portuguese troop movements and military strength...
Some journalists at the time were not so open about their affiliations. Reporter Kim Philby was a Communist agent (he defected to the Soviet Union in 1963). Arthur Koestler also took instruction from Moscow and falsified atrocities. North American Newspaper Alliance's Ernest Hemingway, by all accounts a mediocre correspondent, proved to be a dangerous nuisance as well. On at least one visit to the front he insisted on firing a machine gun toward the Franco lines. The result, reported one witness, was "a mortar bombardment for which he did not stay...
...narrator, Tarden, is the agent of the horrors suffered by the brutalized boy in The Painted Bird and perhaps his inevitable successor. Where the boy was tortured by a primitive, irrational peasantry, Tarden is the tormentor, choosing his victims arbitrarily and without passion. As a child of three, he recalls, Tarden plunged a pair of scissors into the breast of his nurse; he remembers watching the purple stain spreading through her blouse. He moves on to varieties of cruelty that defy, one would have thought, imagining...