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...miles down the road from the border guards' shack where Lieut. Colonel Reso Chachua wards off the winter winds of the Caucasus, a thick rope stretches across a boundary that neatly illustrates what it means to have Russia as a next-door neighbor. On Chachua's side of the rope lies Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union that declared its independence in 1991. Less than 200 yards on the other side lies Abkhazia, a former part of Georgia, which won its as yet unrecognized independence last year by breaking a Moscow- mediated cease-fire and, with the help...
...recruiting Soviet spies was rising. In the fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based KGB spies: Lieut. Colonel Valeri Martynov, a scientific specialist who masqueraded as an embassy cultural- affairs officer; and Major Sergei Motorin, a political-affairs specialist. Their secret would not be safe...
...then the Rangers could hear radio reports that a relief force led by Lieut. Colonel Danny McKnight, 42, was trying to smash its way through to them. They listened anxiously as a column of humvees and lightly armored trucks came within several blocks of their position -- and was forced to turn back because of repeated ambushes and heavy casualties...
...would stop to stare at the marionettes in the window of his optical shop in downtown Algiers. With his fair hair and blue eyes, the tall, garrulous Tunisian Jew was often mistaken for a Frenchman. During 30 years in the city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead, just a few hundred yards...
...Bernard E. Trainor, director of the National Security Program of the Kennedy School and a former army colonel and war correspondent for the New York Times, maintained that there has been no wartime censorships by the government since World...