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...more than two years Nicholson has been spying for the Russians. With the cold war over, the intelligence services of both nations are trying fitfully to cooperate on some matters of mutual interest, like terrorism and international crime. At the same time, as old enemies and uneasy friends, they probe each other by habit and inclination, looking for weak spots. Nicholson may have been one of them, and a potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center, he is the highest ranking agency officer ever charged with espionage. He is also proof of something...
...Gagarin and the space station Mir appeared to have fallen too, with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country to the spacefaring pre-eminence it once enjoyed...
...that for her, "consultation with the White House is an afterthought." Her critics there claim that she acts as if she's on the Supreme Court, not an appointed official running an important agency for the President. Reno's decision to seek no fewer than four independent counsels to probe Administration scandals--from allegations regarding Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to Whitewater charges--has exacerbated tensions with the White House. "They don't know what she's going to do," says a Reno aide...
Dole did not so much assemble a team as begin a desultory conversation with those already around him. The Dole clan was like a dysfunctional family, a cool, taciturn group whose members spoke in shorthand and didn't probe one another's ideas or motivations. There was longtime confidant Mari Maseng Will, a tall, genteel woman who had a real feel for what voters cared about. There was Bill Lacy, a buttoned-down Marylander and trusted Dole aide who would run strategy and message. There was a veteran G.O.P. fieldman named Tom Synhorst, who had managed Dole's winning...
ENID GREENE (EX-WALDHOLTZ) It is so, Joe! Criminal probe of Utah Rep is off. And she can't lose an election...