Word: schuler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says that Harper has been "scared to death that Hugle would kill him." Hugle has been charged with nothing; he is testifying before a grand jury in the San Francisco area but has been silent publicly. The other principal in the tale, Harper's second wife Ruby Louise Schuler, died in June of cirrhosis of the liver...
Harper seemingly let his Polish contacts lie fallow for four years. One reason may have been that he lacked a security clearance. In 1978, however, he separated from his first wife Colleen, whom he eventually divorced, and in 1980 he married Schuler, then 36, whom he later described to friends as an alcoholic and anorectic. Despite those problems, Schuler, who was divorced and childless, worked as a secretary at Systems Control, Inc., a company involved in research for the U.S. Air Force's missile program. She had a "secret" security clearance. Shortly before her death, in a telephone conversation...
Back in the U.S., Harper and Schuler continued to live modestly. Whatever his motive in contacting Dougherty - repentance, fear, a desire to raise the stakes by playing double agent, or some mixture of all three - he picked the attorney's name out of a book that correctly identified Dougherty as having represented Christopher Boyce, who was convicted of selling secrets to the Soviets...
...wealth. He also spoke of going back to Europe to attend to "two very serious business problems . . . I've been putting off for damn near two years." The trip, which federal agents presume was designed to sell more secrets, apparently was delayed by a new romance; after Schuler died, Harper in September married Penny Cook in Nevada. Still, the feds were nervous and moved in to make the arrest...
...million bbl. per day; last August, imports reached 35.7%, or 5.97 million bbl. How would the nation fare today if Arab leaders deliberately turned off the tap, or if the fields were damaged, or if some other unpredictable trauma occurred? Many experts share the view of Henry Schuler, who directs energy and security studies at Georgetown University. Says he: "I don't think we're better...