Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spotlighted others as well. FBI Director William Webster announced last Thursday that the bureau had foiled attempts by Barmyantsev and two other Soviet spies to obtain U.S. secrets. Oleg Konstantinov, 33, an intelligence agent serving at the Soviet mission to the U.N., had been picked up by FBI agents in Manhasset, L.I., in the act of attempting to obtain military aerospace secrets from a U.S. citizen operating "under the control of the FBI," in the cautious words of a bureau spokesman. Konstantinov left the U.S. before he was expelled. Another worker at the Soviet U.N. mission, Alexander Mikheyev...
...face of advice from her lawyer, her agent and her friends not to make Exposed, Kinski went ahead. Why? In part because in pitching the film to her, Toback played Tristan to her Isolde: "This movie is why we're alive. It is why you were born and I was born. If we die when this movie is finished it won't matter, because this is it." Nastassia seems unbothered that the resulting film looks like a Bloomingdale's window of Terrorist Chic, and that the story line functions as a metaphor for her dangerous need to be used...
...headquarters in Midland, Mich. Without any corporate fanfare, Dow scientists met with colleagues from three rival firms, Hooker Chemical, Diamond Alkali and Hercules Powder. On the agenda that day was a discussion of the effects on human health of a family of chemicals known as dioxin. The chemicals, including Agent Orange, later used by the U.S. to defoliate the jungles of Viet Nam, are an unwanted byproduct in the making of herbicides. At the time, most chemists were only vaguely aware of dioxin, or its problems. But Dow had just experienced an outbreak of dioxin poisoning among workers in Midland...
...Hovey is a major supplier of dairy products of Harvard Food Services. Unfortunately, the company's workers have been on strike since February 22, protesting Hovey's refusal to recognize the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union as their bargaining agent...
...today outside Austin Hall at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA), in conjunction with other student groups, will protest the anti-Jewish propaganda and terrorist activities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The protests will immediately precede the appearance of Hasan Abdul Rahman, a registered agent of the PLO and the leading PLO propagandist in the United States...