Word: agent
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...headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. "He was important as a CIA director because he allowed a lot of the CIA's dirty tricks of the 60's and 70's to be revealed ," says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations...
...makes a 28-mile round-trip drive twice a day from Blue Springs, a suburb of tidy lawns and two-car garages, so that Sarah can go to second grade and William to third at Sugar Creek. They were drawn by the foreign-language instruction, but Adams, an fbi agent based in Kansas City, sees the social mix itself as an important advantage. "Somewhere on the news one night the word nigger was used," he recalls. "My son asked me what it meant. I thought that was great; if he'd been around my dad three or four days...
...headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. "He was important as a CIA director because he allowed a lot of the CIA's dirty tricks of the 60's and 70's to be revealed ," says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations...
...goals of the UNITE alliance contradict the Unabomber's: the alliance does not wish to renunciate American society but to work within it, to act as an agent of change for a system in America that's working--but not for everyone...
...Photo, It's Time to Go Home." Bombeck suffered kidney failure in 1992 shortly after undergoing a mastectomy. Just as she raised the spirits of housewives across the U.S., Erma Bombeck kept her own spirits up throughout her illness. "She's an extraordinary person," says Aaron Priest, her literary agent. "If you didn't know her well, you wouldn't know that there's anything necessarily wrong with...