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There on Weinberger's desk was a confession by Corporal Arnold Bracy, a 21- year-old Marine who had been stationed in Moscow the previous year. Bracy's statement convinced virtually the entire Government that there had been a nightmarish security breach. By planting bugs in the embassy's communications equipment, the Kremlin may have compromised CIA operations and gained advance knowledge of U.S. negotiating positions. The scandal led to paralysis, paranoia and recrimination. Electronic communication to and from the Moscow embassy stopped dead. Tons of equipment were torn out of the building and returned to the U.S. for analysis...
According to Green, Video Sickness represents the first time a Harvard student has written, directed and publicly presented an original comedy on video. He and his colleagues shot the film over what the director describes as two "nightmarish" weekends, at locations as varied as Christy's convenience store and Green's roommate's house in Weston...
...When Koop, a retired pediatric surgeon, and his wife Betty moved to Georgetown in early 1981 to await his confirmation, they became proof of the old saw that if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. The process, expected to take a few days, turned into nine nightmarish months of name-calling and personal attacks, as liberals stalled his confirmation. He was called a right-wing crank, a prolife nut, a religious zealot, inexperienced, Dr. Unqualified (the New York Times), scary (California Congressman Henry Waxman) and Dr. Kook. The intensity of the attacks was fueled by prochoice advocates...
...television mini-series were produced about the boy-next-door killer. With network-TV broadcasts of the murderer's last interview and scenes of crowds gathered outside the penitentiary, even his execution became a media circus. Whether Bundy intended it or not, his final encounter with death renewed his nightmarish grip on the nation's attention...
Initial reports from the remote northern reaches of Burundi had a nightmarish quality. Mass panic. Thousands killed. Peasants wielding machetes and spears against soldiers armed with high-tech weapons. Waves of fleeing refugees. Widespread accounts of wanton revenge and murder...