Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Library Awareness Program sounds like a high-minded effort to get kids to check out Huckleberry Finn. Actually, it is an FBI counterespionage effort. In a 33-page report issued last week, the bureau declared that stacks of the United Nations' Dag Hammarskjold Library, the New York City Public Library and the Library of Congress, among others, are haunted by Soviet agents who snitch sensitive research. Spies also prowl libraries to spot recruits -- such as the Queens College student approached in New York City by Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet diplomat who was arrested in 1986 and exchanged for Journalist Nicholas...
Reagan and Gorbachev are expected to use the Moscow talks to issue a detailed status report specifying what issues have and have not been resolved. As Reagan said in an interview late last week, "We'll try to see if we can't come up with some help for the people ((in Geneva)) that have been handling the details of this...
...first glance, last week's Government trade report looked like welcome economic news. The trade deficit suddenly narrowed to $9.7 billion in March, a 30% drop from February's $13.8 billion level and a far better performance than even the most hopeful economists had projected. After months of frustrating setbacks, the trade deficit was finally coming down sharply, and it appeared that the U.S. was making progress in solving one of its most pressing economic problems...
...President Reagan has promised to veto the measure largely because it contains a provision requiring companies to give workers 60 days' notice of plant closings and mass layoffs. It appears that Democrats do not have enough votes in the Senate to override the veto, especially after the trade-report figures...
...economists examined the fine print of the March trade report, they discovered yet another discouraging fact: the monthly deficit with Japan stayed steady at $4.5 billion. Since that represents nearly half the total U.S. deficit, even the most optimistic Administration official would have to admit that the trade imbalance is likely to remain a stubborn problem for years to come...