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...called it "the worst spy case of the century." As Secretary of Defense in the spring of 1987, he was confronted with evidence that Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow had not only "fraternized" with Soviet women but also allowed KGB agents to break into the inner sanctum of the embassy -- the code room, from which sensitive messages are sent to Washington...
...young passport officer lurk the ghosts of his country's history: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin, Stalin and all those they once ruled, the entire tragic parade of persecutors and persecuted. And when the officer finally grunts his assent and one is readmitted to the Soviet sanctum, one still imagines great steel doors clanging shut...
...avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March, reportedly of leukemia. Jacobs and his business partner Cayton, keepers of the most extensive film archives...
Which isn't what I did. Instead I talked to a couple of players and walked back alone across the river and sat upstairs in The Crimson sanctum. My editor came up and asked what had happened and I told him: the team had lost again, and the coach was still upset by last week's article...
...Bush organization operates more like a board of directors than a classic pyramid, with each member having relatively equal access to the Vice President. The inner sanctum: Fuller, Campaign Manager Atwater, Media Consultant Ailes, Pollster Teeter, Communications Director Pete Teeley and Deputy Campaign Manager Rich Bond...