Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EXCHANGE SPOOKED CIA OFFICIALS WHO HAVE LONG SUSpected that the Soviet Union had a spy in the agency during the cold war. Speaking to an American delegation in Moscow recently, a Russian intelligence officer revealed intimate knowledge of a 1974 mission in which the U.S. salvage ship GLOMAR EXPLORER raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine in the central Pacific. American experts said such knowledge could only have come from a classified film of the supersecret operation. The still unanswered question: How did Moscow get the film...
Throughout the play, overblown production techniques inadvertently makes the play more funny than awe-inspiring. The final scene, a bitter exchange between Jason and Medea, is a case in point. The chariot from Euripides' play is here replaced with a gargantuan elevator/space ship device complete with glowing neon tubes. Medea, suspended in this contraption, curses Jason through the chain link fence while industrial music crashes away and lights flash. Dwarfed by the "E.T"-like production, the exchange itself seems rather trifling...
...matter how the election is decided, the fact remains that indirect attempts to help the economy through foreign policy will only preserve the nation in its current depleted state. During the first debate among presidential candidates, President Bush said that his decision to ship 72 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia would create jobs. On the contrary, that move will only serve to preserve the jobs of the thousands of men and women who build that plane...
...GOOD The President looks and sounds like a loser, so his Administration is in disarray: the CIA is quarreling with Justice, the State Department is accused of dirty tricks, and James Baker is missing in action. No wonder Bush aides are preparing to flee like rats from a sinking ship...
...Baker replied enigmatically, "I'm going to Wyoming." Known for coveting face time on television, he has rarely been captured on camera in recent months. When Baker emerged briefly for spin-control duty after the first debate, his main concern seemed to be distancing himself from the sinking ship. "The White House chief of staff," he volunteered, "is not the campaign chairman...