Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Soviet Union and the U.S. have conducted against each other, none have benefited the KGB as much as the campaign in the U.S. to discredit the CIA. In our wildest scenarios, we could never have anticipated such a plus for our side. It's the kind of gift all espionage men dream about. Today our boys have it a lot easier, and we didn't have to lift a finger. You did all our work...
...Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense Ministry computer system. Rybachenko was expelled. Then there was the gift by Colonel Vassili Denisenko, the Soviet military attaché in Switzerland, to an under cover KGB spy of 13 years...
...hamlet was temporarily renamed Carter-Poori (Carter Place). The President perceived that the villagers, who had doubled their wheat production by introducing irrigation and better seed varieties, were "passionately attached to their rights and liberties." They are also realists. Nobody was vexed that Carter's gift to the village, a View-Master with slides of the presidential family, had wound up in the hands of the state's chief minister rather than those of the village council chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very surprised that the gifts to the Indian government-loans for starting a chicken...
...love. "The greatest gift that has come to me is the affection of so many -far more important than people feeling sorry for me. In fact, feeling sorry for someone is simply to give him a little pain reliever. Love is a healing force...
Proudhon once wrote of the "fecundity of the unexpected." That is the infinitely various system of alternatives, within which civilization works itself out. The greatest of human gifts may be the talent for improvisation, the ability to evaluate a situation and then to devise some entirely new way of dealing with it. Without that gift, history would be nothing more than a brutal repetition. -Lance Morrow