Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They called him by fanciful code names -- Top Hat, Bourbon, Donald, Roam -- and on the days when his latest cache of secrets would arrive at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a CIA officer says, "it was like Christmas." There was something for everyone. The names of four U.S. military officers working as spies for the Soviet Union. Hard evidence of Beijing's deepening animus toward Moscow, which President Nixon exploited to forge his 1972 opening to China. Technical data on Soviet-made antitank missiles, which allowed U.S. forces, years later, to defeat those weapons when they were employed by Iraq...
...wife and is now serving time at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Yet Marie Willis' family remains bitter, because the military ignored so many warnings that a tragedy was afoot. Her family says Jeromy was confined to base twice because he tried to kill Marie, but he was allowed to roam freely on the base when the Air Force invited and paid for her to return there and testify against him. "Abused people should not rely on the military for protection," says her father, Eugene Mello, himself an Air Force veteran. Her mother, Marie Mello, puts it more simply: "The Air Force...
...Gaza Strip and that international observers would take up posts in Hebron last week. Neither event took place, although the arrival of several hundred Palestinian police was vaguely rescheduled for this week. Contrary to the Jewish settlers' nightmares, the advance party of Palestinian police will not be allowed to roam freely with weapons; an Israeli military source insisted they will be unarmed and under Israeli supervision...
...spends its night:"Mostly, I roam. You know that old B-52's song, "Roam? "Well, I guess you could say that that's my motto. I go up and down the streets, zooming around the neighborhood, you know, with a sidecar and stuff...
...White House last summer for appearing to make political use of the FBI by calling in the G-men to investigate the White House travel office. He has been taking heavy flak for the strange anomaly of a White House staff peopled largely by aides whose legal right to roam its corridors is questionable. A third of the 1,044 employees have never received permanent passes attesting that they have passed security clearances -- largely, higher officials say, because Kennedy has failed to forward FBI background checks to the Secret Service for final approval...