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Andropov altered the stereotype of the ham-fisted Soviet spy in the ill-fitting suit by encouraging KGB recruiters to go after the best that the Soviet academic world had to offer. KGB foreign agents grew more adept at pilfering high technology and stepped up efforts to spread Moscow's influence around the globe through propaganda and disinformation. But Turkish Gunman Men met Ali Agca's bungled attempt to kill Pope John Paul II in May 1981 tarnished the KGB's new image. Suspicions of a KGB link in the papal plot through Bulgarian surrogates gave rise...
Grenadians looked on with benign amusement as their "rescuers" indulged in a quaint American custom last week. Thanksgiving provided a break in the culinary monotony for U.S. troops, who dug into ham, sweet potatoes and 1,670 Ibs. of hot turkey airlifted in from Fort Bragg, N.C. The feast, which some troops washed down with pungent Algerian wine liberated from the Cubans, even had a trickle-down effect for 100 local schoolchildren: they received C rations donated by U.S. soldiers. The spirit of giving heightened the good feeling that in general has held up since the Americans arrived. Petitions with...
Grenadians last week were dismayed to learn of what seemed a ham-fisted exercise of Yankee power: a unit of heavily armed U.S. troops closed and occupied a thriving Roman Catholic community house that a sergeant says had been "a center for Communist propaganda." Mab, a woman who worked at the facility, is upset. "It was a relief when the Americans first came," Mab says, "but this moving of us isn't so nice...
Indeed, the choices are unappetizing. The price for a kilogram of ham, for example, would rise from the current $5.78 to $7.36 under plan 1, to $7.89 under plan 2 and to $8.42 under plan 3. Edam cheese would go from $2.10 per kg now to $2.42 under plans 1 and 2 and to $2.65 under plan 3. The particularly large price increases of plan 3 would be partly offset by higher subsidies to below-average incomes. While plans 1 and 2 would boost incomes of less than $74 a month by $3, plan 3 would provide a $4 subsidy...
...supporting dishes she suggests are often as tempting as the main event. They include cauliflower with shrimp sauce, pear gratin, mushroom flan, mango sherbet, gratineed blueberries, chocolate omelet, hot banana puffs and icy oranges with hot orange-ginger sauce. One menu, featuring shrimp with Pernod, a grand veal and ham pâté en croute, and honeydew balls in strawberry sauce, would make a fine if unorthodox dinner for Thanksgiving or Christmas...