Word: agent
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...Meanwhile, Muller is proposing a $250 million package for Congress to help Viet Nam veterans even more. His goals: hiring additional personnel for the counseling program; assisting the vets in finding jobs; requiring the VA to determine if the vets will get help for problems related to the herbicide Agent Orange; and extending the time that they can use the G.I. Bill, now limited to ten years from discharge. Sums up Lynda Van Devanter, 33, a surgical nurse who served in Viet Nam in 1972: "Viet Nam was hell, and anyone who has been through hell needs some help...
...question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis...
...thrust of the tumult, as of the book, was that Hollis, in the twilight of his undercover career, had come under suspicion as the result of accusations against him within M15 that he had been a Soviet agent. In 1970, Hollis withstood 48 hours of unstinting interrogation as a result of these charges in an M15 safe house in London, according to Pincher. But doubts remained. A year after Hollis' death, Lord Trend, a former Secretary of the Cabinet and a highly respected civil servant, was recalled from retirement to reinvestigate the charges. Lord Trend, Pincher reported, concluded there...
...some time after the assassination attempt, it appeared that Reagan had not been shot and that he had driven to the hospital to check on the conditions of Brady and the other two victims. District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas K. Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, both of whom are still in stable condition...
Within the Hollywood community, the trial is being watched as closely as the bottom line on a production contract. Waiting in the wings with their own seven-or eight-figure libel suits against the Enquirer are Rory Calhoun, Phil Silvers, Paul Lynde, Agent Marty Ingels and Wife Shirley Jones, Ed McMahon and Rudy Vallee, all of whom evidently agree with Burnett that "it's time to stand up and be counted and not let people like this get away with...