Word: agent
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...London, one of my assignments was to gothrough photographs of people in the Germanintelligence service," Herold says. Her job was tofind the best photographs of each suspected agent,she says...
WASHINGTON -- New evidence presented by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at a hearing last week shows the U.S. government approved the sale to Iraq of biological agents that could have caused the mysterious GULF WAR SYNDROME that has afflicted thousands of U.S. troops. Buried within a 151-page report released at the hearing was the committee's first-time identification of 73 government-approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq from two U.S. companies during the five years that preceded the war. The report also states: "Some of the symptoms experienced by veterans suffering from Persian Gulf...
...years ago. At the time McCarthy was 58 and unknown outside a small mob of readers, quite a few of them critics, English professors or writers, who thought he was God. Being God didn't pay spit, though, and after five books and 30 years, McCarthy had his first agent, Amanda Urban, and a new editor, Gary Fisketjon, two of publishing's more glamorous figures. They impressed upon him the idea that a little publicity never hurt. "It was very simple," Fisketjon remembers. "He had no interest in it." They leaned on him. "He said, 'If you start making exceptions...
...Talbott, an intellectually gifted friend of the President's; and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who appears to have the greatest day-to-day influence on Clinton when the subject is foreign affairs. The question, though, is whether anyone from the present roster would be seen as a credible "agent of change," to borrow a favorite Clinton phrase. Leading the list of new-blood types from outside the inner circle...
...customs officials are investigating half a dozen cases in which Iraq allegedly broke sanctions. However, "for every case we see," says one of the agents, "there's probably a hundred potential violators out there." According to congressional investigators, many front companies established in the late 1980s to purchase parts and technology for Saddam's weapons programs continue to operate in France, Switzerland, Germany, Britain and the U.S. Last month American customs agents arrested a pair of Jordanian nationals, Al. M. Harb and his wife Rula Saba Harb, on charges of using a home-based front company in Midlothian, Virginia...