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...defector-so far unnamed-was a high official in Britain of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. He got in touch with British agents several weeks ago to seek asylum in Britain, and was swiftly granted it. His information conveyed, said the Foreign Office, full details of "the scale and nature of Soviet espionage in Britain." Those details included-startlingly enough-plans for the "infiltration of agents for the purpose of sabotage." The KGB man also brought along a Soviet plan for infiltrating the British navy, particularly a secret research establishment at Portland on England's south coast...
...ballet troupe. Its star performers are second to none. Trouble is, there are almost as many styles as dancers, and more often than not, productions have a slightly underrehearsed look. Its secondary leads, and particularly the corps, vary from good to "good grief." When Natalia Makarova-the dazzling Russian defector who formerly starred with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet-floats to her forest glade in Swan Lake, the ragged corps resembles a Long Island duck farm rather than anything 19th century Choreographer Marius Petipa had in mind. Equally disheveled is a new ABT production this season of a Kirov specialty...
Since 1966, there have been periodic reports-few of them confirmed-of G.I. defectors in Viet Nam. In 1968 an American reconnaissance patrol happened on a Viet Cong squad that was led by a sandy-haired American who wore a red sash and carried a Communist AK-47 assault rifle; killed in the subsequent shootout, the American was identified as a Marine deserter. The latest sighting of a suspected defector occurred just three weeks ago near Kontum: villagers reported a visit by a Viet Cong patrol that included one very tall man who appeared to be a black...
...Naples, played a very important role. Admiral Horatio Rivero was the American Admiral in charge of the southeast wing of NATO. He must have played an important role. The other fact which is of some interest-but this fact I don't know directly except through junta sources-a defector from the junta told us this-that Cyrus Vance was the man that sold the coup to the doubters in Washington. "It's our coup" sort of thing, you know, he relaxed people, that this was "our coup." Now this information I have from a source that I can never...
...Phnom-Penh last week, a North Vietnamese army defector insisted that Communist strength in Cambodia totaled no fewer than 150,000 men-a seasoned core of 35,000 North Vietnamese regulars plus 115,000 Cambodian peasants recruited in the countryside. Little wonder, then, that after he emerged from a grim meeting with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis said: "The margin is so thin." By intensifying the pressure against Communist supply routes in Laos, Richard Nixon seemed to be accepting grave risks in hopes of fattening the margin, not just in Cambodia...