Word: briton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve first secretaries?began crating furniture and canceling milk deliveries, the Kremlin launched a press campaign. Pravda accused London of "witch hunting" and declared that British intelligence uses British businessmen, tourists, journalists and scientists in the Soviet Union to carry out its "sinister aims." In Moscow, Kim Philby, the Briton who defected to the U.S.S.R. in 1963, named 20 British diplomats as agents for British intelligence, mainly in the Middle East...
...strong defensive streak, linked to a conviction that half the world is against the Soviet Union ?a conviction that began with the never-forgotten Western attempts to crush the" Revolution. The West is usually more squeamish about espionage than Russia or other Communist countries. David Cornwell. the Briton who writes realistic spy fiction under the pen name John le Carre (The Spy Who Came In From the Cold), once observed that the West does not believe in "eating people" and yet is forced to defend this very principle by using individuals as "ammunition." In the U.S., espionage was grossly...
...within the past three years. One, a collector of industrial documents, was caught picking up material left for him by another agent in a dead-letter box. Another specialized in obtaining embargoed goods, and attempted to bribe engineers to give him electronic and computer equipment. A third promised a Briton S money if he would get a job in the Ministry of Defense, and a fourth tried to ac? quire a classified telephone directory r from a Defense Ministry employee...
...Ballet and England's Royal Ballet. Theirs are full-length, three-act pieces that use the muscularly bejeweled Prokofiev score. Tudor's 50-minute ballet is based on several wetly romantic pieces by English Composer Frederick Delius. Where Prokofiev pants, Delius sighs; where the Russian stomps, the Briton floats. Tudor, a pioneer in bringing psychological realism to ballet, matches the soft, antique mood of the score. The gemlike production looks like a Botticelli painting in motion...
...celebrated the agreement, the British battle over membership is, in a sense, only beginning. Some Tory Cabinet Ministers forecast a 150-vote majority for British entry into the Market when the question is put to Commons in the fall. But that could prove a very rash prediction. The average Briton is still afraid of the EEC's high food prices and fearful of losing British sovereignty to the Brussels-based Eurocracy. Britain's most powerful trade union leaders are dead set against the EEC. The pressures already are so great that the Labor Party may soon be forced...