Word: defectives
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...make his autonomy agenda a reality, Chen is now faced with the twofold challenge of maintaining the country's economic prosperity while holding China at bay. Most of the country is still more concerned with peace and safety than political autonomy and will quickly defect to the Nationalists if a threat of aggression becomes real. What's more, investors both within and without Taiwan trust the Nationalists' economic stewardship. Many Taiwanese may love the concept of autonomy, but will still take a silent relationship with China over jeopardizing their economic and physical safety...
CHARGED. MARIANO FAGET, 54, Cuban-born U.S. immigration officer; with spying for Havana; in Miami. U.S. officials fed Faget false information about a Cuban's plan to defect to America and arrested him after he passed the "intelligence" to a Cuban-born businessman in New York. Washington later expelled a Cuban diplomat with ties to Faget...
...wind of Faget's activities when a surveillance investigation called Operation False Blue allegedly found him engaged in unauthorized correspondence with Cuban intelligence officials. The bureau then set up a sting in which American agents told Faget of a Cuban intelligence officer who was trying to defect to the U.S. Faget is alleged to have immediately placed a call to a New York Cuban-born businessman who was in contact with Cuban authorities. In a Friday press conference, an FBI official would not reveal further details of the case but said the bureau expected to make additional arrests...
Castro apparently won't let Elian's father travel to the U.S.--probably because he fears Juan Miguel would defect. But the Cuban dictator seems to have found potent ambassadors in the grandmas. They first went to Miami on Monday. The Cubans and the INS insisted on a meeting in a neutral location, but the Miami relatives would make Elian available only in their home, forcing the grandmothers to leave without seeing...
...itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions of his predecessors who, after all, suffer the hugely disqualifying human defect of being, at the present time, dead. Being alive brings with it a certain prestige, and a tendency to exaggerate...