Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During Andropov's tenure at Dzerzhinsky Square, the KGB stepped up efforts to influence world events in the Soviet Union's favor through propaganda and disinformation, so-called active measures. Some of the KGB's more polished agents abroad have apparently been instructed in recent years to cultivate officials of their host governments and drop tantalizingly frank tidbits of information during cocktail-party chatter. Says former West German Counterespionage Officer Hans Josef Horchem: "They come right up to a man, knowing that he knows they are KGB, and with a wink of the eye, they calmly ask him about exactly...
...with police in Bydgoszcz. Even rank-and-file Communists had started to call for democratic changes in the party organization. By striking down Solidarity's pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains a Vatican official: "It was the same kind of drastic action that the Soviets took when they invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. They did that while the whole world was watching. What would it matter if they were exposed for killing the Pope...
...bureaucracy centered in Moscow that in many respects is just like any other in the Soviet Union, down to its own five-year plan. Because the KGB is organized in a rigid, vertical chain of command, cronyism is widespread. Many of its officers are not above currying favor with their superiors and sometimes compound their mistakes by trying to cover them up. According to Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, this most secretive of organizations has had its share of minor security lapses. An angry old woman searching for a toy store located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground...
Moral considerations aside, the sale of the building could have consequences that would help balance Harvard's cost-benefit analysis. Offering the building to Cambridge can only serve to boost relations between the University and the city. A favor now could help in a future negotiation. Holding onto a deteriorating shell of a building in a city facing a housing emergency on the other hand, can do nothing but harm. Craigie Arms is not likely to become the $900-a-month apartment complex the University has envisioned. Harvard should realize this--finally--and stop trying...
Schmidt spoke at the 1979 Harvard commencement when he was still head of the Federal Republic of Germany. In that address, Schmidt argued strongly in favor of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty...