Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale lighted a long, thick cigar and sat back on the sofa. Though he is a shrewd political analyst, he is not reflective about himself. One wondered as he talked how much he saw of his own weaknesses. "I'm my own agent now," he said, "not someone else's advocate. I've tested myself. I went out for two years like a national vagrant, learning, changing, to see if I had what's necessary to lead...
...suspect. Nut is rumored to have been carrying on a stormy affair with a Lebanese woman and might have been the victim of a crime of passion. But given his intelligence connections, it seemed more likely that he was the target of a foreign operative, perhaps even a double agent...
Though Nut ostensibly kept watch on vital French nuclear installations in his region, he is known to have been running a team of undercover agents and informants, providing information on Soviet intelligence activities in France. He made several trips to Italy, which prompted speculation that he might have been investigating Bulgarian links in the plot to kill Pope John Paul II. Nut could also have played a role in uncovering Soviet Agent Victor Pronin, who was arrested in Rome the day before the French intelligence officer was murdered. Italian Under Secretary of Defense Bartolo Ciccardini seemed convinced that...
...should smug cocaine apologists be permitted to bandy the distinction about as a shield. But it is necessary to an understanding of just how such a dangerous drug could become so pervasive, even routine. "The only way to cut down the demand for coke," says a senior DEA agent in the South, "is to prove what the effects...
Take a good look at the face. A really good look. Roll the name over your tongue. Julio Iglesias. Better get used to it, because if the "Spanish Sinatra" and his press agent, Superflack Warren Cowan, have anything to say about it, the name is about to become as familiar in the U.S. as it is just about everywhere else on the planet. Over the past 15 years, Iglesias, 39, has reportedly sold some 70 million albums worldwide. But you'd mention the name Julio Iglesias to most Americans and they'd say, "What?" At least until this...