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...duties bespeak the nation's belief in his incorruptibility: after hours at major U.S. embassies, he and a Marine buddy go through the empty building securing classified documents that may have been left out, locking safes and disposing of the "trash," often top-secret papers, in the diplomatic "burn bag." They also check on each other. In the 38 years since the U.S. began posting Marines to guard duty, the system had seemed infallible...
Among other charges, the Marine Corps alleges that Lonetree and Bracy provided the Soviets with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of "covert U.S. intelligence agents" in the Soviet Union. They offered embassy blueprints, floor plans and office assignments to the Soviets, turned over the contents of confidential burn bags and lied to security personnel about why alarms had been activated in the communications center...
...enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion." Cowper idly contemplates that unhappy prospect because after he decided to run for office, first oil prices, then Alaska, went bust...
...naive that he holds up the chaotic protest of The Sunlight Man as an ideal to be striven for. It is clear by the end of The Sunlight Dialogues that it is the Clumlys of the world who have real impact, while Sunlight Men tend to burn out from their own fiery natures. We see this in the scene in which one of Clumly's officers finally apprehends The Sunlight...
...Beth's case," Delaney Smith added, "where she's been doing so much recruiting work for so long, it's the kind of job where burn-out definitely has an effect. Dale is interested in pursuing a head coaching position...