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...secret codes or documents to a potential enemy. A Russian-language specialist, Prime had worked at GCHQ from 1968 to 1977. He then left voluntarily and subsequently held jobs as a taxi driver and a wine salesman in the town of Cheltenham. At the time of his charging a fortnight ago, he was unemployed. His trial is scheduled to begin in November...
Acting White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes, who concocted Washington's newest alumni society, issued a call to his ten living brethren a fortnight ago. The sheer number in the fraternity attests to how we are governed today...
Falklands, the remote British colony that Argentina had invaded a fortnight earlier. Steaming at an estimated 18 knots, the armada was expected to be on station by midweek. Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had already stationed four submarines, three of them nuclear powered, inside a 200-mile "maritime exclusion zone" around the Falklands, and threatened to fire on any Argentine ship that challenged the blockade. Argentina must unconditionally withdraw from the Falklands, Thatcher insisted to the approval of 80% of her countrymen, or Britain would fight...
...standard, the security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras...
...nine months tracking down hundreds of women bosses. The standards: they must be in charge, wholly or in part, of companies whose sales are at least $5 million annually, or managing operations with budgets of that size in larger firms. The result was the Committee of 200, which a fortnight ago held its founding meeting in Los Angeles...