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...bugging operation was disrupted by sharp-eyed Gs who were driving near State on an unrelated surveillance last June. They noticed Gusev, a known intelligence officer whose mug shot they had memorized, standing on the sidewalk, and acting "oddly." After alerting their superiors, the FBI operatives set up an intense surveillance of Gusev...
Officials left the chair-rail bug in place for a few weeks to make sure they could prove it was under Russian intelligence control. Once the evidence was in hand, two FBI agents confronted Gusev on the sidewalk at 11:34 a.m. last Wednesday. He claimed diplomatic immunity and was declared persona non grata and given 10 days to leave the country...
George W. Hicks ignored an important point in his editorial (Opinion, Dec. 10), namely that it is actually illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk in Harvard Square. The woman who yelled at him was completely in the right. Maybe she didn't phrase her comment in the most polite way, but he was breaking...
...sincerely doubt, however, that the woman who yelled at Hicks for riding his bike on the sidewalk and "weaving in and out of pedestrians" was doing so because of a March on Washington flashback...
Instead, it seems as if her actions stemmed from concerns not only for her own safety, but for all of the other people on the sidewalk that Hicks was using as a moving loom. I agree with Hicks, rudeness is pervasive in our society, but I see it more as a result of narrow self-interest than of '60s style protests...