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...Gordievsky chose to come in from the cold at this time remained a matter of intense press speculation in London. Allegations that he had acted for material reasons were dismissed as "rubbish" by government officials. Said one: "He defected for principle, not money or women or the bright lights." In fact, the KGB may have been on the verge of unmasking Gordievsky as a double agent. Had it been safe for him to stay in place, British intelligence certainly would have wanted him to do so. Moreover, Gordievsky, described as a man deeply attached to his family, defected while...
...agents acting on a tip, reportedly from Walker's former wife, were tailing him last Sunday near Poolesville, Md., some 20 miles northwest of Washington, when he stopped his car to toss a bag of trash beside a tree. Mixed with the rubbish were more than 120 classified documents dealing with the movements of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean. When the agents arrested Walker early the next morning, the FBI said, he was carrying a map of clandestine drop points in the Washington area, places where a spy could leave documents to be retrieved by a contact. One of those...
Even if you are into this sort of Kiplingish stuff, it could get tedious it told poorly. Fortunately, Porch expertly recreates what it was like to be there, describing, for example, "large hills of rubbish that were constantly churned and sifted by packs of stray dogs and near-naked children...
...most popular English playwrights of the '20s, Lonsdale was a master of drawing-room comedy, sophisticated plays about the idle, but not idle-tongued, rich. "In the '50s and '60s, when the angry young men were writing, people thought Freddy's plays were absolute rubbish," says Harrison. "But the angries have grown old and got their goodies, and they don't know what to be angry about any more. So there's going to be a revival of Lonsdale, I think. The plot of Aren't We All? is not terribly strong, but the play itself is really rather nice...
...study, the three states were selected last week by the Department of Energy as the most promising places in which to bury 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive wastes beginning in 1998. They were the unhappy winners in a competition involving nine possible sites. Most of the nuclear rubbish is in the form of 12-ft.-long spent fuel rods that have been stored for nearly 30 years at the 85 power plants scattered across the U.S. The water pools used at the plant sites to cool and temporarily hold the rods are filling...