Word: magnus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
...years the South African government has been at war with the 900 antidraft activists of the End Conscription Campaign. Defense Minister Magnus Malan calls them "anti-South African." The police have repeatedly raided the campaign's 40 offices and campus branches, and jailed 96 of the group's members without charge. Last week Pretoria fired its latest, and most devastating, salvo. Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok banned the group from "continuing any activities or acts...
...take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while one of America's Founding Gardeners, Thomas Jefferson, lived...
...format and main studio in Rosslyn, Va., are still under construction. But four network-credentialed anchors -- NBC's Bill Macatee and Robin Young and ABC's Edie Magnus and Kenneth Walker -- have been hired, and Friedman sounds confident that he has caught the next video wave. Says he: "This is television for the '90s." Gulp...
...said was an A.N.C. guerrilla transit facility, situated twelve miles inside Botswana. South African forces staged a postmidnight raid on the house, shot to death four people asleep inside, including at least two Botswanan women, and escaped by helicopter after fire bombing the target. Said Defense Minister General Magnus Malan: "It is the policy of the South African government to combat terror wherever it may occur...