Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final question was voiced by the Daily Express: "How many more spies are there?" Boyle claims there was a "fifth man" and hints that he was Physicist Wilfrid Basil Mann, who was an attaché in the British embassy in Washington from 1948 to 1951 and is now a senior physicist at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md. Boyle says the fifth man passed atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, but was trapped by then CIA Agent James Jesus Angleton and turned into a double agent. Angleton will not talk, and Mann told the London Daily Telegraph...
...dissidents have been arrested in a rather clumsy campaign by Chinese security officials to crack down on a small but vocal free speech movement that was encouraged inadvertently by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. A year ago, Deng declared: "If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it." Since then, to the dismay of China's leadership, dissidents have pasted up posters on democracy wall bluntly attacking the authoritarianism of the regime. New underground magazines have sprung up; they contain detailed reports on the horrendous conditions in Chinese prisons as well as sharply worded demands for human...
That's what 74,500 fans in Denver's Mile High Stadium must have thought as their Broncos' cheerleaders, the Pony Express, skittered onto the field in glittering t & a (for team spirit and ardent rah-rah-ing) costumes of halters, miniskirts, gloves and white vinyl boots. But wait. That cheerperson in the middle, wasn't she a little flat of chest and hairy of hide? No wonder. It was TV's Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy) filming for an upcoming sequence, Hold that Mork! So it was all a drag? Not for the Broncos...
...were willing to express comparable confidence about the country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
...links with other guerrillas: There have never been close ties between the Republican movement and the P.L.O., the Basques or any other revolutionary groups. Obviously, there are parallels, and we would express solidarity with their struggles for national liberation...