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...decades, a varying number of NOCs (the exact figure is classified) have been installed abroad in big multinational corporations, small companies or bogus academic posts. The more genteel rules of traditional espionage do not apply to NOCs. When the Soviets caught a diplomat doing spy work during the cold war, they roughed him up a little and sent him home. Unmasked NOCs, on the other hand, have met with much harsher fates: CIA officer Hugh Redmond was caught in Shanghai in 1951 posing as an employee of a British import-export company and spent 19 years in a Chinese prison...
Residents say they are unclear on the exact details of the agreement being discussed, but add they are hopeful a compromise can be reached that they will support...
...occasional surprise, rather than a larger pool of competitive crews as on the women’s heavyweights level, is the exact point of concern...
...weeks later, Radcliffe had its chance to exact revenge and display its extensive improvements, squaring off against Brown at the Eastern Sprints Championship on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey...
...Record Straight: Al-Qaeda Warning The report about al-Qaeda in Iraq [Sept. 15] included a picture of a card with an Arabic warning signed by al-Qaeda. The caption said that the message was "Promises of death to America." The exact translation is "Death to agents of America...