Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent, working for the Soviets at the same time he was an agency employee. In an affidavit filed last week in Albuquerque, the FBI said a confidential source claimed that Howard sold information to the KGB last year in Europe. Senator Dave Durenberger, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence, told CBS News that Howard could have caused a security leak "as serious as anything this country has seen in the past." Howard's case, moreover, may be just the beginning. U.S. sources told TIME that as many as five more Americans may be indicted for espionage...
...knowledge of Soviet agents and moles in the U.S. After returning to Moscow, says one intelligence source, he handled liaison between the KGB and the Central Committee of the ruling Politburo. "It's caused a real body blow to the KGB," said Patrick Leahy, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of Yurchenko's defection. "They must be in sheer panic over there...
Some look to the Federal Government to make companies competitive. Arguing that Japan's success is based on close business-government cooperation, they call for an industrial policy that would have committees select future growth industries and push exports. But that approach is unlikely to work in the U.S., which lacks the history and ethos of public-private cooperation. A U.S. industrial policy would likely end up in bureaucratic overregulation or logrolling favoritism, with Government aid going to the industries with the most political clout rather than to those that most need development. The Federal Government, of course...
Founded in 1970 by graduates of the semi-secret, humor-oriented select social club, the New York-based National Lampoon has a contract to "pay the Harvard Lampoon a royalty for the use of the name 'Lampoon,"' Simmons said. But he refused to disclose the exact amount. Jessica Marshall '86, a Crimson editor who last month was named president of the Lampoon, put it more bluntly: "We just get a hefty check from them every month...
Spence said that his first concern would be to "make sure that we devise a way of getting through this year," but refused to say when a search committee would be formed to select Jewett's replacement. Spence said he hoped to have a new dean by January, but added that a candidate's availability could prevent a successor from being named until well into next year...