Word: soviet
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...forthcoming book by ex-KGB counterintelligence chief Oleg Kalugin describes alleged Soviet agents who worked against the West in the 1970s. Among the purported spies exposed in the book (to be published by St. Martin's Press) are a high-ranking mole inside the counterintelligence section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a U.S. military-intelligence officer who is said to have turned over CIA documents and NATO war plans...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled "feasting" on Spam as a girl in the war years. Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev claimed, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...
...followed by some kind of punitive measures; not to react in such instances is silently to condone it." Pipes and others contend that Moscow was emboldened to invade Afghanistan in 1979 (which provoked a series of ineffectual Western sanctions) partly because the West did little but huff when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia...
Since joining TIME four months ago, Thompson has interviewed cadets at West Point, traveled with Defense Secretary William Perry on a weeklong tour through four of the republics of the former Soviet Union and interviewed dozens of military families for an investigative report on the epidemic of domestic violence in the services. The story, which ran three weeks ago, prompted Maine Senator William Cohen to request that the Pentagon report back to the Senate on its efforts to combat such abuse...
...order to help solve the political and economic chaos which followed the break-up of the former Soviet Union, Albright said the United States should continue to contribute financially to help rebuild the infrastructure of each new country...