Word: servante
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...concerns a governess in an English country house who tries to save the boy and girl the cares for, who are haunted by the ghosts of a previous housekeeper and serve of For example, the young boy's homosexuality--which is caused by the ghost of a former servant--forces him to leave boarding school...
...name "Acneas Anderson," heads the first of the four pages. Lum said that he did not at first know who Anderson was, but after consulting a scholarly review off Macartney's journal he discovered that Anderson was Macartney's personal servant during the mission...
...process of disillusionment starts melodramatically. A chilly, officious "civil servant" (Patrick McGoohan) arrives at the Jacksons' home and bullies them into permitting his unnamed, hush-hush government agency to install surveillance agents in the upstairs front bedroom. The targets of this scrutiny turn out to be the Krogers: they have fabricated their personal histories, and are suspected to be part of a Soviet spy ring. But Pack of Lies, a West End hit now on Broadway, is only secondarily about espionage. As in his play and film Stevie, a small masterpiece that starred Glenda Jackson, Whitemore is more interested...
...issue was the government's decision last August to prosecute Clive Ponting, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defense, for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. Ponting had leaked to a Labor M.P. documents that detailed the government's decision to attack the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war in 1982. Although Ponting's lawyer subsequently put the odds against acquittal at 300 to 1, the jury found the defendant not guilty...
...Third World, and at the U.N., the KGB cooperates with intelligence services of the Soviet-bloc countries. Closest to the Soviets are the Bulgarians, Cubans and East Germans. Bulgarian intelligence was the most obedient Soviet servant in terrorist operations and had widely penetrated Southern Europe and the Middle East. The Bulgarians worked on the Arabs and Turks. I saw an example of this when KGB recruitment of a Turkish diplomat in New York was accomplished with Bulgarian help...