Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four jailed leaders of the Philippine Communist Party and the payment of $2.5 million. The government insisted that Manotoc had been kidnaped, and officials promised a relentless search. But the efforts turned out to be so casual that a full week after Manotoc's disappearance, not a single agent had gone to the restaurant where the couple had dined. Rumors began to spread through Manila that the government knew more about the kidnaping than it was saying. The President's wife Imelda had been bitterly opposed to the marriage. For one thing, the family was Roman Catholic...
Alexander Haig, 57, Secretary of State, on the many bodyguards around U.S. Government officials: "The other night when I leaned over to kiss my wife good night, I had to tell my security agent to roll over...
...film, a stylized musical set in Las Vegas on Independence Day, recounts the affairs of a junkyard owner (Frederic Forrest) with two women: a travel agent (Teri Garr) and a circus star (Nastassia Kinski). Coppola calls Heart "a lounge operetta, pretty and sweet. I've made too many gangster and soldier movies. I like fantasy and fable-it's a large part of me." It is also a huge part of the film's budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting...
...Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas? Not to worry; the East and West love to swap important captured agents at any time of the year...
...signed a three-year deal with Montral, Dave Rozema signed a three-year deal with Detroit, negotiations between the Dodgers and Fernando Valenzuela have broken down with the two sides over half a million dollars apart, and the Red Sox have reportedly decided not to continue to pursue free-agent pitchers Rick Waits and Sid Monge...