Word: karla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tale sounded like a John le Carre thriller, and with good reason: the main character is believed to have been the model for the novelist's Karla, the fabled communist spy master. Markus Wolf, former chief of the foreign intelligence arm of Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, emerged in Vienna last week, where he had been secretly living since Aug. 30. He applied for political asylum in Austria -- a request that was promptly denied. The wily spy chief, who is wanted in Germany on espionage charges, is currently free on appeal...
...were committed on both sides of the Berlin Wall. There was a peculiar similarity to the sunless corridors and bureaucratic fatigue of Moscow and Washington. Enemies became interdependent and sometimes indistinguishable; it was a case of the left hand strengthening the right. George Smiley in Britain needed his rival Karla in Moscow. NATO needed the Warsaw Pact. The CIA needed the KGB. And the spy novelists needed them...
...since the mid-'70s when there has been such a sudden flowering of reflective songwriting. Back then, the smash success of the Eagles, with their ingratiating harmonies and their canny outlaw lyrics, kicked open the doors for a whole generation of songwriters, from Jackson Browne to Warren Zevon and Karla Bonoff. Whether any 1990s group will crash the charts in such big-time fashion is not yet known. But they are already making a joyful noise, a reworking and reinvention of what the Irish songwriter Paul Brady, 44, calls "blue-eyed American rock 'n' roll...
...countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former head of East German intelligence whose prowess at placing agents in Bonn's highest offices led to his depiction as the formidable Karla in Le Carre's spy novels, went to the Soviet Union, presumably to help the KGB roll up the East German operations. "Some of the best analysts from Eastern Europe are probably in Moscow now," says a British diplomat. "And the best agents abroad are probably employed...
...Shelly Weaver 3-11 2-4 10; Betsy Stedman 0-0 0-0 0; Shonica Tunstall 9-15 3-3 22; Janet Firlings 0-4 0-0 0; Elaine Harper 1-3 0-0 2; Margaret Fuchs 2-7 3-4 7; Jinny Gill 3-6 0-0 6; Karla Marquis 0-0 3-4 3; Carol Ryan 0-3 0-0 0; Heather Dietz 0-0 1-2 1; Pamela Bass 1-1 0-0 2; Marcia Brown 4-8 10-12 18; Maia Baker...