Word: moscow
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...Soviet agent in the batch was Ronald Pelton, 44, a communications specialist for the National Security Agency for 14 years. He allegedly began selling secrets to Moscow shortly after his retirement in 1979. His total estimated payment...
...desire for action is not confined to the West. In 1983 an antiterrorist squad was flown from Moscow to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, after a local group killed seven people aboard a jetliner. Three of the hijackers were killed in a shoot-out and five others captured. Four of the survivors were sentenced to death...
American loans dried up after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and President Carter responded by putting strict limits on U.S. grain sales to Moscow. When Reagan lifted the embargo in 1981, the Soviet Union turned mostly to Europe for loans to buy grain. This year, though, the Kremlin began seeking American credit once again. Troubled by seven consecutive disappointing harvests, the Soviets are expected to buy $1.6 billion worth of grain from the U.S. this year...
American bankers were eager to do business with the Soviets because they have a reputation for making debt payments promptly, in contrast to shaky Latin American borrowers. The financiers offered Moscow an unusually good deal. Interest payments will be only one-quarter of a percentage point more than the London Interbank Offered Rate, an international benchmark that currently stands at 8.125%. The bankers are confident that they will not be criticized for giving the Soviets favorable terms. Reason: financially strapped U.S. farmers are in desperate need of boosting their grain sales to Moscow...
...option the Soviets had for raising money was to sell off some of their gold reserves, estimated to be worth $25 billion. But South Africa, whose loans have been cut off by international bankers, is already selling large amounts of gold to stay afloat. Moscow feared that putting even more gold on the market would cause the price to plunge...