Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that Gordievsky had been a longtime double agent for the West first surfaced when Erik Ninn-Hansen, Denmark's Justice Minister, asserted in a television interview after the London disclosure that Gordievsky had cooperated with the Danish government while he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen from 1972 to 1978. But British officials disputed the notion that they had simply taken over the Soviet agent when he moved to Britain...
...press speculation in London. Allegations that he had acted for material reasons were dismissed as "rubbish" by government officials. Said one: "He defected for principle, not money or women or the bright lights." In fact, the KGB may have been on the verge of unmasking Gordievsky as a double agent. Had it been safe for him to stay in place, British intelligence certainly would have wanted him to do so. Moreover, Gordievsky, described as a man deeply attached to his family, defected while his wife and children were still on summer vacation in the Soviet Union. Gordievsky's whereabouts were...
...stress the danger of the latter possibility, much of the networks' fall schedule is devoted to uninspired formula fare. Of the 19 new shows, nine will feature crime fighters of various kinds, from an ex-Government agent who offers his services to people in trouble (CBS's The Equalizer) to a quartet of oddball superheroes in NBC's Misfits of Science. Comedy, meanwhile, has gone back to the basics: three of the five new offerings revolve around wholesome nuclear families--two of them black--in an obvious effort to duplicate the recipe that made The Cosby Show last season...
Despite his deep sympathy for liberal causes, Browning may find it prudent to heed warning signals from a 1985 Gallup poll of Episcopalians. Among the laity, 78% did not think it was the church's place "to be an agent of political change in the United States"; 76% thought the church should concentrate on "worship and spiritual matters" more than on political issues. From 1965 to 1983 the church suffered an 18% decline in membership, and a forthcoming book will warn that the Episcopalians and similar liberal denominations are aging far more rapidly than other religious groups and losing their...
...search for housing can become blackly absurd. When an AIDS crisis center in Atlanta tried to rent a home for victims, real estate agents refused to help them. One even ordered the center's representative, who did not have AIDS, out of his car. "There's just too much I don't know about this disease," the panicked agent protested. "I have kids. I didn't know what you wanted this property for." The center finally found a house for AIDS victims by keeping their ailment secret. Bounced around by unnerved officials, some AIDS sufferers have become pitiful nomads. Fabian...