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...letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change his plea to innocent by reason of insanity, and produced a psychiatrist who told the court that Moore appeared to be paranoid and insane at the time he tried to peddle a CIA directory to the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Stealing the Company Store | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Long Island homeowner heeded his President's plea to save energy-and discovered he would be taxed for his patriotic gesture. After watching his annual fuel bill soar to $700, William Nagy estimated he could save $250 using solar energy to heat his water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Solar Catch 22 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stop Watch on Life | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Between Gloria and Marabel, they've got us coming and going. I have a single plea to both of them: Leave me the hell alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1977 | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENTS: The Search for Excellencies | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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