Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over a period of four years, Barbouti spent two or three days a month in Libya, designing and supervising construction of the "technology center." As prime contractor and chief procurement agent, he traveled the globe recruiting expertise and labor. For Rabta he provided Japanese-designed desalinization and electrical equipment, as well as plastic molding and precision machining plants, a foundry from a Danish firm, a metal-working plant, a power station, a water-treatment facility, a maintenance workshop and three warehouses. He had plenty of money to spend; one Rabta contract, he boasted to a friend, was worth nearly...
...threat by 44 Islamic countries to ban the sale of its other books within their borders. In a statement, the company insisted that it had not intended to offend anyone and did not plan to withdraw the book from circulation. Andrew Wylie, Rushdie's New York City-based agent, said the book was still scheduled to be translated into 20 languages, but publishers in France and West Germany were reconsidering plans to issue editions of their own. The Canadian government halted imports of the book while it decided whether, as alleged by Muslims, the novel violates the country's laws...
...business. But what if a foreign communications kingpin were secretly working for the KGB as part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author of the best-selling 1987 spy thriller State Scarlet...
...There is an area where there used to be a cargo door and it's not there any more," said Eugene Glenn, special agent in charge of the Honolulu FBI office. But Glenn said it was not known whether the loss of the cargo door was a cause of the accident or a result...
...Roaring Twenties satin and fringe are a dazzling but understated use of the $30,000 costume budget. The best duds of the night came in Act II, when the speakeasy clientele and the cops don camoflauge outfits and wellplaced grenades. In the night's fashion coup extraordinaire, Agent Tess Tosterone sports black leather bodice, camo cape and the most lethal weapon of all--metal breastcups with fold-out knives--better known as "Ginsu chest...