Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson's greatest gift is his ability to make sense of anger: he writes naturalistic scenes of genial humor turning into an explosive violence that flows from his characters and from the warping effect racism has had upon them. Humiliated in the larger world, these people fiercely guard their dignity close to home. Defeated by enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history...
...Marine buddy go through the empty building securing classified documents that may have been left out, locking safes and disposing of the "trash," often top-secret papers, in the diplomatic "burn bag." They also check on each other. In the 38 years since the U.S. began posting Marines to guard duty, the system had seemed infallible...
Alas, it was not. Last week Corporal Arnold Bracy, 21, a former guard at the Moscow embassy, became only the second "ambassador in blue" ever to be arrested on espionage charges. The first was Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, Bracy's accomplice at the Moscow embassy, who was apprehended three months ago. Lonetree is charged with 24 felonies involving security breaches, including two counts of espionage, which carry a possible death penalty. Bracy is being held in a Quantico, Va., brig until the accusations against him are clarified...
...Administration has launched what State Department Spokesman Charles Redman called a "full-scale counterintelligence investigation." All 28 Marines assigned to Moscow are being replaced. State Department security officials will accompany the new guards on their rounds. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the House and Senate intelligence committees ordered broad investigations into the entire 1,400-man Marine Security Guard battalion to which Bracy and Lonetree belonged...
...simpler times Franklin Roosevelt was fond of the notion of a White House staff with a "passion for anonymity." But in the postwar era the President's palace guard has wielded far too much power to remain shrouded in obscurity. The character and competence of an Administration is often shaped by those who command offices in the West Wing of the White House. Such has been particularly the case with Ronald Reagan. In his first term, the fractious troika of James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver exposed the often passive President to a wide diversity of opinion. In contrast...