Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...
...Geoffrey Arthur Prime was serving with the British Royal Air Force in West Berlin when he offered his services to the KGB in 1968. Over much of the next 13 years, he worked as a Russian translator at Britain's top-secret electronic intelligence center in Cheltenham, and he managed to pass the Soviets sensitive information on British and American counterespionage efforts. After Prime was picked up last year for a sex offense involving a 14-year-old girl, his wife reported to police that she had uncovered spy equipment he had used...
...reruns: you can catch Mary Tyler Moore every night and M-A-S-H ten times a week. On the 24-hr. Cable Health Network, a psychiatrist is either preventing or precipitating a woman's emotional collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby and the sagging post-holiday spirits of 10 million viewers. And on each of the three "major" networks, a cop is still chasing a crook, another teenager outsmarts her sitcom dad, a nest of vipers buzzes in the bosom of one more TV dynasty. Click, click...
...bridge and overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great coach...
...blameless, just why had Lord Carrington felt the need to resign as Foreign Secretary immediately after the invasion? The report revealed that he had repeatedly warned during his three-year tenure of the dangers of diplomatic stalling. He had also disagreed with Thatcher's decision to withdraw the Royal Navy's survey ship H.M.S. Endurance from Falklands patrol, a move that some believe convinced the Argentine junta that Britain would not resist an invasion...