Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union has consistently denied its involvement in chemical warfare. The Soviet news agency TASS denounced the State Department report as "dirty lies," and pointedly noted that the U.S. had used poisonous herbicides (including the controversial Agent Orange) during the Viet Nam War. The Soviets have also accused the U.S. of supplying Afghan rebels with chemical weapons and of preparing to use them against Cuba and the rebels in El Salvador...
...mock White House (and a false-front Blair House, the nearby VIP guest quarters) so that its burgeoning presidential security force can properly learn the particulars of the presidential mansion. With 3,000 recruits being trained this year, maneuvers are difficult to conduct around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Explains Special Agent Mary Ann Gordon: "It's better if you know the lay of the land...
...clever drawings of animals wearing glasses, and so forth)-as if the presence of Latin and the imprint of a name were so formidable as to reverse a motor reflex. It never works. One might try slipping false jackets on one's books-a cover for The Secret Agent disguising Utility Rates in Ottawa: A Woman's View. But book borrowers are merely despicable, not stupid; they tend to leaf before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious...
When the Los Angeles Dodgers' training camp opened this month, the club and Pitching Sensation Fernando Valenzuela, 21, were talking money but found themselves in different ballparks. Fernando and his agent, former Actor Tony De Marco, were asking for about $1 million a year, but would settle for a package reportedly totaling $850,000. Los Angeles is willing to pay $350,000. Unable to bridge the gap, the lefthander picked up his glove and went back to Fernando's Hideaway in Mexico. Said Valenzuela, who earned $42,500 last year: "We are flexible. Why can't they...
...Jerzy Kosinski's just published Pinball is appearing as a Bantam Papa (5,000), Mama (150,000), with babies yet to be determined. Says Stuart Applebaum, director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith sees the flagging economy as the reason. Says he: "Few people today can walk into a store and casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that by 1990 more than half of all books will originate in soft-cover-a situation that prevails in Europe today. And many...