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Word: kgb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, though he has been roundly vilified in the Soviet press. The Soviets' fear of incurring worldwide opprobrium was compounded a month ago, when Sakharov managed to get a message to the West that if he died during his hunger strike, the KGB might well be guilty of his murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: End of a Fast | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...song." He then sings several of Blake's visionary eruptions, to cheerful nursery-like ditties of his own composition. Near the end of the evening he reads from recent verses describing himself as a failure. In one he confesses: "My tirades destroyed no intellectual unions of the KGB and CIA . . . I have not yet stopped the armies of entire mankind on the way to World War III . . . I never got to heaven, nirvana, x, whatchamacallit. I never learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Howl Becomes a Hoot | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament that there was "not even a scrap of evidence" for allegations that the council was taking money from the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tides of War | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...SAVAK agents who have lost none of their taste for brutality and their skill at torture. Their Soviet teachers, who are evidently members of Central Asian minorities who speak languages related to Farsi, behave like true Muslim believers. "We are Muslim brothers and must help one another," is the KGB line in the Saltanatabad spy school. The Soviet instructors even pray with their students, while ostentatiously riffling through their traditional Muslim prayer beads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Big Brother Moves In | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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