Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways the trial of Shcharansky could be seen as a personal affront to Carter, since the President had publicly denied the Soviet charge that Shcharansky was a CIA agent. Certainly the timing of the trial, in the week of the SALT meeting, was a slap in the face for the Administration. But the U.S. moved cautiously in choosing the means to protest (and there were even weekend rumors that it was negotiating some kind of exchange for Shcharansky). When the trial date was announced, the White House ostentatiously canceled trips to the U.S.S.R. by two U.S. delegations. Washington later...
Last week the name of Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., now 47, emerged again at the center of a new controversy over his role as an FBI informant. Birmingham police and state investigators leaked information to reporters that depicted Rowe as an agent provocateur. Rowe may actually have helped the Klansmen plan the acts of violence that he later reported to the FBI. Moreover, Rowe admitted that he participated in the violence, and he may even have committed murder while on the FBI's payroll...
While Rowe was talking to state investigators, he suddenly changed the subject and claimed that he had shot and killed a black man during a night of racial rioting in Birmingham in 1963. Rowe said he reported the killing to FBI Agent Byron McFall and was told to "forget it." McFall has denied the allegation. Police have no record of the killing, but they do not rule out the possibility that it may have occurred...
They are like a scattered army-you can't shoot them all." So said Farmer Ivan Josserand of Stanton County in western Kansas last week, as he fought a losing battle against swarms of grasshoppers chewing up his alfalfa and corn fields. In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte Hendricks counted up to 50 hoppers per sq. yd., five times the number usually considered to be disastrous. Said he: "On the fringes of some bean fields there is nothing left but stubs...
Checking in at Boston's Logan Airport for a flight to New york City, McAward was told there were no available seats in the nonsmoking section. He had a right to such a seat, he insisted, so the gate agent allowed him on board to see if some arrangement could be worked out. As the plane started taxiing down the runway, McAward took a seat on the tobacco side of the SMOKING/NO SMOKING sign and asked a flight attendant to move the sign. No way, said the smokers already seated on that row. So McAward got up and headed...