Word: donalds
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...before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner against the N.R.A...
...accounts, Donald F. was a first-class spy. For nearly 30 years, the well-placed Soviet diplomat was said to have fed precious secrets about his nation's defense to the U.S., making him one of the intelligence community's most valued assets. He used all the tricks: cipher pads, invisible ink, dead- letter drops in Moscow's Gorky Park, coded advertisements in the New York Times. Never short on chutzpah, he even transmitted radio messages to the U.S. embassy in Moscow from a passing trolley bus. Though Soviet agents reportedly suspected his disloyalty for years, he repeatedly managed...
...affair seemed both a throwback to the cold war and an illustration of growing openness in the Soviet Union. Rarely have the Soviets acknowledged that a secret agent has so seriously compromised their security. Pravda disclosed that Donald F. -- code-named "Top Hat" by his American patrons, who say he worked for Soviet military intelligence -- passed on diplomatic codes, nuclear-weapons doctrine, civil-defense blueprints and plans for coping with chemical and biological warfare. It was not clear when Top Hat was apprehended or whether he has been executed...
Another theory is that Moscow had been on to Donald F. for some time; his cover may have been blown by several references to his existence that have appeared in the U.S. press over the years. Soviet officials may have decided to expose the affair now in an effort to rehabilitate the reputation of KGB Colonel Alexander Dukhanin, whom Pravda credited with breaking the case. Last year Dukhanin was implicated in a corruption investigation of Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and KGB officers...
...opinion delivered to the council last night, city attorneys said the city was not in any serious danger of losing a court battle. Duputy City Solicitor Donald A. Drisdell told the council that most claims against the repeal would be groundless, because it simply returned the rent control laws to their previous state...