Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most damaging spy operation in the U.S. in nearly four decades was exposed, curiously, through a mundane child-custody fight. Barbara Walker, the ex-wife, and Laura Snyder, the daughter, of accused Spymaster John A. Walker Jr., disclosed last week that Laura's efforts to regain her five-year-old son led them to report Walker to the FBI. The two women provided new details of the family's past, revealing some oddly twisted values. Although Barbara knew her husband was selling secrets to the Soviets, she seemed equally concerned that he was using his espionage activities as an alibi...
...agreed to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying. Only afterward did the women learn that Laura's brother Michael, 22, had also been implicated in his father's espionage ring. Said Laura of her mother: "See the irony? She turns in my father so that I can fight for my son, and her own son is now a victim...
When people fight about spaghetti, the issue is usually whose mother makes the best sauce. Last week a dispute over pasta was simmering on an international scale. In an attempt to protect U.S. noodlemakers, President Reagan slapped a large tariff increase on European manufacturers. The tariff will rise from about one-tenth of a cent to some 10 cents per lb. on the price of noodles made with eggs and from one-eighth of a cent to 10 cents for eggless pasta...
...several chances to beat Gullikson, but let a 3-1 lead slip in the third set and thereafter had to fight for every point...
...assets: $22.1 billion), New England's No. 1 lender, will now acquire Colonial Bancorp of Waterbury, Conn. (assets $1.5 billion), and RIHT Financial Corp. (assets $2.3 billion) of Providence for about $200 million. Said a disappointed Hans Angermueller, vice chairman of Citicorp (assets $150.1 billion), which led the legal fight against the regional pact: "Banking is the only industry that still enjoys local protection...