Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here!" When that cry, or versions of it, echoed through the U.S. embassy in Moscow last March, horrified security officials reacted swiftly. Certain that two Marine guards had let Soviet agents prowl through the building and plant listening devices, authorities closed the electronically shielded meeting-room "bubble," tore out cryptographic and other communications gear and sent messages to Washington by courier through Frankfurt. Those steps, as well as a global investigation of the Marine guard force, have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. But last week one senior Marine officer concluded that the alleged penetration of the embassy "just...
...news from Tokyo buoys Wall Street, as do the Fed's reassurances of the previous day on the availability of credit. Major corporations take advantage of greatly discounted prices to buy back large blocks of their own stock. Other bargain hunters also begin to prowl. One broker says the market is moving "from hell to heaven...
...Tammy Faye, basking in the resignation news at their mountaintop home near Gatlinburg, Tenn., said they were certainly willing to return if the creditors wished. Of course, Bakker could face a court hearing or two of his own, what with a federal grand jury and various investigators on the prowl...
...unattached women surveyed said they are not looking for a relationship or are undecided. In addition, 7% of the married women and 18% of those living with someone said they were hunting for a new man. One-third of women in steady relationships said they too were on the prowl...
...unbelievable," declared a Pentagon official. "We'd never allow something like that to happen here." He referred to the astonishing Soviet decision to let three Democratic Congressmen prowl for four hours through the secret radar facility near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. The Kremlin permitted the lawmakers and a few aides to snap 1,000 photographs inside the facility, which has been the focus of U.S. charges that the Soviets are violating the 1972 treaty limiting antiballistic missile systems. Predictably, the visit served to intensify debate in Washington about Soviet intentions...