Search Details

Word: confessional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

If it was Higgins, both the CIA and Israeli intelligence -- as well as Bush -- believe he was killed much earlier than last week. Intelligence specialists point to a number of anomalies that make them doubt his captors' account of when and how he died. For one thing, Higgins' captors announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Again: A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S. | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Talk is the sex of the '80s. In a time when you can hardly initiate a handshake without a note from your doctor, conversation is not just a white- collar mating dance; it is the most intimate form of safe sex. Over the telephone or a restaurant table, a man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, U.S. counterspies thought they could checkmate the bugging system the Soviets appeared to be installing in the new U.S. embassy being built in Moscow. Instead, the U.S. had fallen far behind. Construction had stopped in mid-1985, when American security experts admitted they might not be able to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, investigators might have stopped there and at least re-examined Bracy's confession. When they did so later, they discovered that Bracy was wrong about how some alarms worked. In the spring of 1987, however, investigators were convinced that Bracy's confession was authentic. They saw the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

But it was Clayton Lonetree, the Marine who started the whole fuss, who inadvertently laid the PCC-penetration theory to rest. In August 1987 Lonetree was sentenced to 30 years in prison on espionage charges. In exchange for a five-year reduction in his sentence, he agreed to talk. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | Next