Word: interior
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Ironically, Andropov may owe his rise to the bungling of one of the nation's most notorious secret police chiefs, Lavrenti Beria. After the death of Stalin in 1953, the tiny Georgian with the trademark pincenez tried to bully his way to power by incorporating the Ministry of the Interior into his vast security empire. That incautious move roused a vengeance-minded Politburo to action. Beria was arrested and executed. First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, in a famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, vowed that the state security forces would be subservient to the principles of "revolutionary...
...hunters' magazine to give the deer's side of the story. Don't look for lectures on chastity in Cosmopolitan or Penthouse. Don't expect defenses of Interior Secretary James Watt in an environmental journal. The unstated premise of all specialized magazines is: Get your balance elsewhere; we're writing for like-minded people...
...somehow the interior of the Charles Playhouse expands. It has to, to accomodate the exuberance of Godspell actors and actresses. As they march out into the aisles to sing and clap their way through "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," the entire house shakes--except for buoying waves of enthusiasm, the roof might have collapsed long...
...Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California's new Senator, Pete Wilson, 49, who took on James Watt, the aggressive Interior Secretary. "He's off making a science-fiction sequel to E.T., "said Wilson. "It's called Raiders of the Last Park...
There is a melancholy echo these days for Richard Helms, former head of the CIA, as he trudges to the Pentagon and pulls up a chair in the somber interior of Room 3E333. He and ten other members of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces have been asked to design the free world's nuclear deterrent for the rest of this century. Helms' entire adult life has been given to studying and acting against forces that would quell freedom. The problem probably cannot be solved for more than a few years at a time, a fact...