Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed it was. Yet spying is an old and nasty game among rival nations. The key issue in the sad and still developing Marine espionage scandal was not whether the Soviets had broken some unwritten rule of civilized snooping or what American agents had done to them. A more relevant question was just why American Marines and State Department officials had permitted the Soviets to compromise U.S. security so thoroughly -- and so easily. On that point the many investigations were very much in order...
Younger Magadanians seem more interested in their present and future careers than the area's sordid past. "That was a sad time, and we feel shame for it," said Galina Fedchenko, a reporter for the regional newspaper Magadanskaya Pravda. "But we don't talk about it very much. It's far in the past." She paused, and added with perhaps more confidence than justified by history, "We know it can never happen again...
THERE ARE some of the sad but true facts I learned while on a trip to the San Ysidro Mexican border. I have already taken much flak from friends for being in the second car of a high speed chase during which the Border Patrol scared a truckful of illegal aliens back through a hole in the fence to Mexico...
...elements of human nature except those that can be clearly specified in a contract, assessed and sold. In such a context, his statement that he was influenced greatly by what he believed to be the Sterns' greater ability to explain the circumstances of Melissa's birth and upbringing makes sad sense...
...Last week they were in residence at a borrowed Palm Springs mansion, while Tammy continued outpatient treatment at the Betty Ford Center for addiction to prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The loss of their ministry, said Tammy, has hit them very hard. "Jim and I are both very sad," she said. "We're hurting...