Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, after Laura broke the ice with a telephone call last Nov. 23, Barbara agreed to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying. Only afterward did the women learn that Laura's brother Michael, 22, had also been implicated in his father's espionage ring. Said Laura of her mother: "See the irony? She turns in my father so that I can fight for my son, and her own son is now a victim...
Ever since the grandiose failure of Sir Peter Hall's staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth two summers ago, Wagnerites have been anticipating the San Francisco Opera's new production of the epic four-evening cycle. For although it is common knowledge in the opera world that there are not enough voices of heroic Wagnerian caliber around these days, just put on a Ring and watch the paying customers line...
...weeks, Mehmet Ali Agca had threatened to turn Italy's "trial of the century" into a three-ring circus. He repeatedly insisted that he was Jesus Christ. He refused to elaborate on his claim that there was an international plot to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981, declaring that further testimony would endanger his life. But last week Agca was suddenly all business. "I have decided to continue," the 27-year-old Turk briskly informed the Rome court where he and seven other defendants are standing trial, four of them in absentia, on charges related to the alleged conspiracy...
Weinberger and Lehman made their proposals after a formal assessment of the damages caused by the family-and-friend spy ring. The good news, the Navy said last week, was that the U.S. fleet of ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs), the most important element of the nation's sea, air and land nuclear deterrent, seems secure. Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations, said SSBN tactics and equipment have changed greatly in the 18 years since John Walker served on two nuclear subs. "We remain convinced that our SSBN force is still 100% survivable," he said...
Over the years, his activities began to form a patchwork quilt of legend and rumor. He was reported to have masterminded a heroin-trafficking ring in Paraguay; he was said to have been Stroessner's personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...