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Word: polish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winning Ugly | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

According to the FBI affidavit, Harper in 1975 was introduced by Hugle, whom he called "the Big Man," to Polish intelligence officials. Hugle is described by one associate as "a good guy at putting deals together." The Poles had a portion of a "shopping list" of secrets that the Soviet KGB wanted, and still wants, to buy. The master list is said never to leave Moscow. Harper in 1975 turned over items of U.S. technological information. But they apparently were relatively minor: he was paid no more than $7,500 for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Harper seemingly let his Polish contacts lie fallow for four years. One reason may have been that he lacked a security clearance. In 1978, however, he separated from his first wife Colleen, whom he eventually divorced, and in 1980 he married Schuler, then 36, whom he later described to friends as an alcoholic and anorectic. Despite those problems, Schuler, who was divorced and childless, worked as a secretary at Systems Control, Inc., a company involved in research for the U.S. Air Force's missile program. She had a "secret" security clearance. Shortly before her death, in a telephone conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...reported, Harper and Hugle were in contact with a Pole whom Harper knew by the code name of "the Minister." His real name is Zdzislaw Pryzchodzien. According to the mole, he is an official of the Polish Ministry of Machine Industry, but actually is an operative of the Polish intelligence agency, SB, which works closely with the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Magistrate Martella has maintained a strict silence on the inquiry, though last month he informed Agca that he was under investigation for slandering Antonov, apparently by implicating the Bulgarian in an alleged plot to kill Polish Labor Leader Lech Walesa earlier that same year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reprise at St. Peter's | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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