Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...installment in hand, Garrett had to pay off fines and reimburse San Diego County for five years of welfare payments. Soon after, he was arrested in his newly purchased Buick Skylark along with two passengers, one of whom had just sold 8 oz. of cocaine to an undercover narcotics agent. Facing narcotics and firearm charges, Garrett must stand trial next month for allegedly stealing two bottles of cognac from a liquor store. The unlucky winner did manage to make bail by pledging $80,000 as security -- from his future lottery payments...
...prosecutor exploded. He began screaming that I was a paid agent of the CIA and that they compensated me with those very certificates. I began yelling too -- that I certainly was not a CIA agent, that the CIA did not pay me, that Andrei had received that money legally for publication of his scientific articles in the West. "The prosecutor has insulted me," I said, "and if he does not apologize I will not participate in this trial...
...agent need fear again dire consequences if caught in the act. The principle has been established: if the U.S. arrests a Soviet spy, the Soviets can retaliate and create a crisis situation. Unlike some of his predecessors, including--gasp!--Jimmy Carter, this president does not believe in the principle of not trading innocent Americans for foreign spies...
...government's headaches did not end there. Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical Paris weekly, charged that a French counterespionage agent had met with an "emissary" of the F.A.R.L. in Madrid last May; following that encounter and other alleged contacts in Damascus, the group had suspended its terrorist attacks in Paris in exchange for possible French leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L...
...Parenthood. Meanwhile, the Material Girl has her own troubles these days. Her new movie, Shanghai Surprise, has derailed at the box office and rumors abound that her marriage to Co-Star Sean Penn is also off the tracks. Such uncharitable speculation is "not true," according to Madonna's p.r. agent, who accuses the media of assuming the pair has broken up "just because they happen to eat a meal in a different city." Well, the press has been known to exaggerate, but p.r., don't preach...