Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that Gordievsky had been a longtime double agent for the West first surfaced when Erik Ninn-Hansen, Denmark's Justice Minister, asserted in a television interview after the London disclosure that Gordievsky had cooperated with the Danish government while he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen from 1972 to 1978. But British officials disputed the notion that they had simply taken over the Soviet agent when he moved to Britain...
When the Federal Government was fully reassembled last week after the long summer holiday, all eyes were on the White House. Reagan took the stage at his dinner for Denmark's Prime Minister Poul Schluter. Somber aides hovered at the edges of the party through the evening, sometimes darting close to confide something to the attentive President. Anticipation was etched on his face. He turned to his lovely dinner companions, Lisbeth Schluter and Katherine Evans, editor of the Washington Journalism Review, and explained: "If somebody comes up and whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly...
...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...
Journeying to Denmark, another site where the Cretaceous geological record is complete, Walter Alvarez gathered corroborating samples of iridium and received still more from colleagues working at a third site on the other side of the world, in New Zealand. The evidence seemed overwhelming. In 1980 the Alvarez team finally published its results in the journal Science and stirred up some scientific debris of its own. Says Paleontologist Leo Hickey, director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale: "My first thought was this is one of Walter's practical jokes...
Beyond such traditional attractions as London, Paris and Rome lie the superbargains. Denmark is quite cheap; Spain and Portugal are very cheap. A palatially balconied room at the onetime royal hunting lodge in Portugal's magnificent Bucaco Forest costs $35 a couple a night. The pottery shops around the noble monastery of Batalha or the Moorish stronghold of Cintra sell beautiful 18th century-style china for prices as low as $7 a plate. Greece is beyond cheap, particularly if you concentrate on the best bargain it has to offer: find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean...