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Espionage boomed during the 20th century, as World War II and the Cold War made invisible ink and encrypted messages more than just fodder for thrillers. Austro-Hungarian agent Dusko Popov, the reported inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, gallivanted around Europe feeding false intelligence to the Nazis and sleeping with countless women. (His fondness for ménages à trois earned him the code name Tricycle.) British spymaster Kim Philby spent 30 years rising nearly to the top of MI6, only to be unmasked as a double agent in 1963--having sent decades of secrets to the Soviets...
...couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because the roads are destroyed." A minor earthquake that struck late Saturday caused little additional damage. - By Peter Prengaman A Silenced Voice SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Gunmen shot dead Dusko Jovanovic, the controversial editor of Montenegro 's conservative daily Dan newspaper. Dan was frequently critical of the coalition government of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. New Terror SAUDI ARABIA Security forces stormed a housing complex for expatriate oil workers in the eastern city of al-Khobar, where suspected Islamic militants took...
...Dusko Zavisic, a young Serb photographer who has escaped from Sarajevo, told me that as a boy he was taken to visit the museum at the World War II Croatian concentration camp at Jasenovac. The pictures there of murdered Serbs were so horrifying he could not eat for two days afterward. In the latest war of Croats and Serbs, the Croats destroyed the museum. It was Dusko Zavisic who took the photographs of atrocities in Vukovar last November. He said that for days he was afraid to close his eyes because the afterimages of mutilated bodies and smashed heads would...
GORBACHEV by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson...
That paramount question of our times underlies a new biography by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson, who served in Moscow for the Washington Post and the London Sunday Times respectively. They have produced a compelling study of the mysterious, almost biological process by which power is accumulated in the Soviet system and of the figure who has most notably mastered this...