Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allegations that he was involved with the private funding of the contras through contacts with a former CIA agent called Max Gomez. I feel pretty darn strongly about this because I've heard these rumors and I've been a victim of some of them. I've told the truth, and yet I continue to read these stories. So I can speak more viscerally than if I hadn't felt the sting of some of these false charges. There is this insidious suggestion that I was conducting an operation. It's untrue, unfair and totally wrong. I met Max Gomez...
With his conclusions, Witten had inadvertently provided Ostriker with the agent he needed to produce the giant voids. "When I first saw Ed's paper, in 1985," Ostriker says, "it blew my mind." Reason: a vibrating, current- carrying loop is a radio transmitter, and if the current is large enough, the ultralow-frequency radio waves it emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought...
...remained. While Ostriker's calculations showed that the forces released by an exploding galaxy could condense gas and dust enough to begin the formation of new galaxies, they were not powerful enough to sweep clean any regions as large as the largest observed in the sky. Then what mysterious agent had created the giant voids...
...area of close-knit families, strangers stand out, making police undercover work nearly impossible. Good informants are tough to recruit because, as DEA Agent Kenneth Miley explains, "families don't tell on families," although that has changed some now that the feds pay bigger money for solid tips. Nonetheless, the established smuggling networks ensure a continuity to operations. After the feds busted one cocaine runner last year, his brother took over. When he was arrested, another brother came to the fore...
...bank deposits have leaped 198% in five years -- a cash transfusion that Customs officials attribute to the dope flow. The new money, concedes Mayor Jose Saenz of Roma-Los Saenz, a border town of 3,700, "indirectly benefits us all." That touch of prosperity, according to Customs Agent D'Wayne Jernigan, has "created a wall of reluctance to cooperate." Agrees local Chemist Benito Trevino: "There's no outcry because people see the potential for making money...