Word: karla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Derided as the "captain of a wrecked ship," Smiley tries to find a coup so stunning it will restore the Circus' reputation?and funding. From the outset, he has one obsessive target: Karla, head of Soviet agent operations, whose spectral face stares down from its frame in Smiley's office. The relationship of the opposing spymasters, playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal...
...Southeast Asia. Is it bankrolling enemy operatives? Is it used to push heroin in the People's Republic of China? Is Drake Ko, an amoral Hong Kong millionaire, a conduit? Drake's brother Nelson is one of the two dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives and files to find names, places, references once suppressed by Haydon. Midway through the paper chase, coherence emerges. A devious plan unfolds, vouchsafed piecemeal...
...Cliffe also swept the two mile. Karla Amble, normally a half-miler, won with a quick time of 12:12.6, while Judy Rabinowitz and Kessler followed...
Golpaul and Karla Amble added to the victory parade with firsts in the 220 and the mile, respectively. Amble grabbed the gold in 5:30 in place of regular miler Sarah Linsley who was busy winning the half-mile...
Just now, Linda is cooling out in Los Angeles after months of bashing about in planes and buses like a piece of lost Samsonite. Her new puppy Jenny has excavated the garden of her Malibu beach house and needs reasoning with. Her friend, Songwriter Karla Bonoff, is recording her first solo album and needs Linda to sing backup. Her teapot needs to have tea in it. She needs to lie on her beach and let her mind float out to sea. She needs to shop for a dress to wear to the Grammy Awards ceremonies (where she is a solid...