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...These days more than ever, Europeans seem to harbor immense suspicion, if not disdain, toward the U.S. As former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev put it recently in the Washington Post, "The world doesn't want to be American." Indeed, here in Europe, many citizens tremble at the very thought. Why? Aside, of course, from the facile and one-dimensional explanation of jealousy, isn't the rest of the free and not-so-free world bursting at the seams to be like the citizens of the country that brought us life, liberty and-that anthem of the modern age-the pursuit...
...attempt to change the treaty will shake the strategic root and trunk of world peace and security." VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, voicing concerns that U.S. plans for a missile defense program would violate a 1972 nuclear arms agreement...
CHARGED. U.S. Fulbright scholar JOHN EDWARD TOBIN, 24; with possession of marijuana; in Voronezh, Russia, where he was studying. In a bizarre chain of events, the Russian security service arrested Tobin on drug charges, then accused him of being a spy, an allegation denied by the State Department. The spy insinuations were later dropped, but officials may now charge him with drug dealing...
Details of the price of alleged FBI mole ROBERT PHILLIP HANSSEN's espionage are beginning to emerge. Sources tell TIME that Hanssen may have cost the U.S. more than $200 million in compromised intelligence programs that must now be replaced. The tab for one supersecret program that tapped Russian communications alone could top $100 million. LOUIS FREEH's FBI had failed to use a standard counterintelligence technique known as mail cover on the Russian spook who ran Hanssen. The technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like...
Take in your hand a long Russian novel, The Brothers Karamazov, say. Tear out four of every five pages. Go to a golf course in a gated community in Southern Florida, and read those pages. Alone, in a basement and out of the cold, I had a similar experience. The exhibit of Candida Hšfer's Photographs at the Rose Museum is stunning, but it is small, fragmentary, and out of place...