Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1960s, when Harvard students stormed University buildings in an attempt to force ROTC off campus, the clash was over Vietnam and the role of the military in our society. On one side stood those who felt the war was evil and that the military, as the agent of that war, was evil as well. On the other side stood those who felt the military was a necessary institution, and one that should not be denied the contributions of Harvard students...
...bonding of Mathilda and Leon may be among the strangest in the long, tiresome history of odd-couple movies. The sweetness that develops between them as they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...
...attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably passive" during the early stages of the Ames probe -- the biggest spy case in U.S. history. ButCIA Director James Woolsey-- ripped by the Senate panel -- got off easy this time. "This did not happen...
...Park, in the western part of El Paso. In Nogales, Arizona, arrests are up 51% from last year. "We're seeing a lot more folks from Baja California, who normally would cross through San Diego, and people from Chihuahua, who would usually cross in El Paso," says Nogales border agent F. D. Gunter. To cope with this surge, the Tucson sector is getting 100 new agents, along with night-vision scopes, helicopters, computers and other equipment...
Some of the toughest areas to control are in the brushy landscapes near the Texas border towns of Laredo, Del Rio and McAllen, which have not been promised any additional agents or equipment. "We have not heard about this plan, and to date we have received nothing," says McAllen border agent Mario Garcia, whose area covers 280 miles of river, 19 counties and 17,000 sq. mi., are all policed by 395 agents...