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...shrewd editorial stroke, McClatchy brought back Howard Weaver, now 35, a defector from the News's bad old days. Weaver, who had left to launch a "semiunderground" weekly, says McClatchy interviewed him "to find out what kind of bomb thrower I was." A mighty good one, as events proved...
...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 to the end of line. The frustrated defector excitedly explained that he had an important matter to discuss with the Ambassador or the CIA. The embassy's consul, hearing the ruckus, came out to investigate. The man, now desperate, flashed his Soviet passport. No reaction. Next, he took out his military identification card. A glimmer of comprehension...
...agitated against the Viet Nam War. In 1975, briefly interrupting an eight-year period of work and study in Mexico, he weighed in with the pro-busing factions in Boston. "No one is going to force me out of the left," Leiken vows. "They may call me a defector and an impostor, but they're not going to force me to change the things that I believe...
...story gets more interesting. A State Department official asked to interview Medved to see whether he wanted to return to the Soviet Union or remain in the United States. He took the potential defector to an American ship for questioning. Only the man the Soviets turned over was lighter and shorter than the original Medved. And this person couldn't speak Ukranian as fluently as the original...
...whom. Sometimes, in a column under the heading "Questions Without Answers," the Times offers a later updating on "questions that defy news reporting, at least for a while." What happened to those five Monets and two Renoirs stolen from a Paris museum last October? Was Vitaly Yurchenko an authentic defector who changed his mind, or a double agent? Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal considers this column "an interesting thing to do." Too often, however, after having raised a question again, the Times discovers that there is nothing really new to add. Had there been something, the Times presumably would have...