Word: defection
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...needed help, and in a hurry. But a Soviet military intelligence analyst who wanted to defect to the West recently was almost not allowed to. When this official approached the gates of the U.S. embassy in Tunis, he attempted to make himself understood to the Marine guard. The befuddled guard pointed toward the visa section. The official dutifully took his place at the end of a lengthy queue of Tunisians submitting their visa applications. Soon, he became jumpy; the KGB might already be on his tail. He approached the officer in charge, who promptly ushered the upstart back...
...widespread speculation about the shocking death of the University of Maryland basketball star. Bias, 22, who had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics, had been in perfect health. He did not, as rumored, have the genetic disorder Marfan's syndrome. Nor did he suffer from any previously undetected defect in his heart or circulatory system. Bias had simply taken some cocaine--perhaps for the first time--and, as a direct result, died...
...mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated him there for nearly two weeks. Weymouth finally convinced them that he was not seeking to defect--just wandering...
...decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower courts had tried for putting brakes on RICO. Justice Byron White concluded for the majority that while Congress may not have expected legitimate businesses to be targeted so easily by RICO, "this defect--if defect it is--is inherent in the statute as written, and its correction must lie with Congress...
...didn't catch the hospital's mistake, what if four years later the child she brought home died? Looking in the scrapbook she discovered the bracelet and realized the babies had been switched. Would she then be entitled to get her real daughter back from the Amzallags, claiming genetic defect...