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Thomas Borge, the Nicaraguan Minister of the Interior and second in command of the People's Army, applied for a visa in late March after receiving invitations from the Law School, the Business School, and more than 20 other American universities and organizations. But the State Department has yet to approve the request, and an official in the Nicaraguan Embassay in Washington yesterday charged that they were deliberately stalling...
...serious hat is not a masquerade, not a goof and not an announcement that while a man may look like a middle-aged New York City account executive, he harbors a West Texan in his soul, the real interior galoot made manifest in the feathered Stetson that sits on the bar. The serious hat is the opposite of a disguise. It is a working piece of clothes and an adjunct of character...
...sheer boldness of the decision that shocked Moscow, delighted Western capitals and dramatized the dimensions of the Soviet espionage effort in Western Europe. More than three months ago, French President François Mitterrand had been given a report by his Interior Ministry on the intensifying activities of the Soviet spy network in France. Mitterrand could have responded like his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, with traditional French diplomatic discretion, by quietly declaring a few of the more fla grant Soviet offenders personae non gratae. Instead, in a move unprecedented for France, the President ordered the expulsion...
Against this background of increasingly brazen Soviet exploits, the abrupt expulsions seemed long overdue to French counterintelligence services. Former Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin revealed that in 1971, when Georges Pompidou was President, he had proposed the expulsion of 150 Soviet and East European agents, but that it was decided not to jeopardize relations with the Soviets. Under Giscard, the argument prevailed that it is better to keep spies who are already identified and known rather than throw them out and have to start anew ferreting out replacements. Accordingly, over the past 20 years France, publicly at least, had expelled only...
...pickin' up bad vibrations./ Watt's givin' me palpitations./ Gee whillikers, what a sensation." Such adulterated lyrics, until last week, would have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario...