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Steve Christensen had just stepped out of the elevator en route to his sixth- floor office in Salt Lake City, one arm filled with Cokes and doughnuts for an early-morning meeting. At his office door, Christensen, 31, reached down to pick up a cardboard parcel with his name on it, and a shrapnel-filled bomb inside blew up in his face, killing him. Some 90 minutes later, in the hilly suburb of Holladay southeast of the city, Kathleen Sheets, 50, returned home from a walk. She bent down to pick up a curious package, with her husband's name...
Hence, in the Soviet Union, the mentality of the spy is part and parcel of the mentality of the commissar and, beyond that, of the citizen. The relationship between an agent and his source, between a secret policeman and his informer, is not only an honorable estate but an essential...
...demonstration threw a small wrench in some of the illusions students possess, that somehow "their University" crisis in a vacuum, outside the social realities of decaying capitalist society. What we must realize is that ins this University is part and parcel of the whole racist system...
...half of the Politburo membership. He also mildly flouted Kremlin protocol by leapfrogging two of his nominees to full Politburo status without benefit of an interval of nonvoting candidate membership. Finally, in his plenum speech, Gorbachev reaffirmed that the infusion of new blood at the top was part and parcel of his highest priority, the revamping of the Soviet Union's chronically ailing economy. Said he: "Revolutionary changes are needed. What is at issue is the retooling of all sectors of the national economy on the basis of the latest scientific and technological advances...
Rique and Natasha Kuru had no idea when they purchased their 208-acre ranch in Northern California's Mendocino County last year that they were picking a choice parcel for the Federal Government. But the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught them tending an estimated $52,000 worth of homegrown marijuana last October were armed with more than a search warrant. Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which authorizes lawmen to confiscate property used to commit crime, the Kurus faced not only prison but loss of their land...