Word: rome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overslept his alarm and he arrived a few minutes late. Now, after that inauspicious start, Ames was involved in debriefing Yurchenko every day on KGB operations against Western countries, including penetration of U.S. agencies. Ames was also preparing for a transfer from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to Rome and was trying to master Italian...
From late 1983 through 1985, Ames served as chief of the Soviet counterintelligence branch in the S.E. division. With this elevation in status came new duties. From March 1984 to July 1986, when he was transferred to Rome, Ames was authorized to hold frequent phone conversations and meetings with Soviet embassy officials. CIA rules mandated that all such contacts be cleared in advance or reported afterward. Unknown to his superiors, however, Ames began to conduct unauthorized, unreported conversations...
...virtues of the old republic. Antony represented a transition: he could live on bark and roots with his men when retreating out of the Alps before Lepidus (the old Roman virtues); and then he would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism, if the present teeters between past vigor and future decadence, Americans right now are at their Mark Antony stage of development...
...sense, nostalgic moralists are almost always right, as Rome eventually proved. The problem is that nostalgic moralism may turn itself into a political program -- which produces jackboot simplism, the fascism that feels like a breath of fresh air as it approaches, and like an apocalypse in its aftermath...
...Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism. A single, straight line connects the lunatics and racists of the entire world. A single line of blood and terrorism runs from the Islamic Holy War member who shot Jewish worshippers who stood in prayer in the synagogues of Istanbul, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome, to the Jewish Hamas member who shot Ramadan worshippers...