Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which suggests that the five may actually have been involved in espionage. Last week security agents arrested an obscure Chinese attache, Kuan Heng-kuang, aboard the Chinese-operated Moscow-Peking express at the Si berian city of Irkutsk. The Soviets claimed that the attache had been at tempting "to obtain espionage information of military nature from a Soviet woman." He was promptly ordered out of Russia. Since the diplomat was heading home anyway, the expulsion amounted to no more than a diplomatic gesture...
...which distribute these drugs indiscriminately to whoever asks for them. Curran's primary defense is that his critics have misinterpreted his intentions because they have not read the full report. The report, however, is not available to the public, although the opposition groups have made a concerted effort to obtain copies. Curran defends the report's limited distribution on the grounds that it is a "management report...
...handed guitar students suffered from severe rhythm problems and a general inability to improvise. A specially strung guitar designed to be strummed with the left hand and fretted with the right solved the problem. Those who achieved skill, however, found that professional-quality lefthanded instruments were very hard to obtain. Other lefthanders insisted from the start that they were as good as any righthander and did not want any special favors. The result was that they were unable to develop any skill on their instruments...
...people were killed by Palestinian terrorists, the new strategy is to deter such attacks with massive shows of force. But even security men admit that such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese...
...wake of a national election that returned her to power with a reduced plurality, to form a new government committed to continuing negotiations. The Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, echoing a widespread feeling, demanded: "Why can't we react immediately to the provocation? Do we have to obtain approval from Washington to protect ourselves against murder...