Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still leaves the anti-Saddam alliance in a quandary. Although U.N. Resolution 687 gives inspectors the authority to find and remove from Iraq all chemical, biological and nuclear material and equipment, enforcing the ban is a delicate job. Backed by Britain, Bush has been brandishing his sword largely to spook Saddam into cooperating with the U.N. inspection teams -- a strategy that has yielded only mixed results...
JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
When you come to bat, dare to swing against Oakland native Dave Stewart, the game's most feral competitor, whose "death stare" would spook Cyclops. Or face Bob Welch, the first American League pitcher since 1968 to win 26 games in a season. Try hitting a grounder through the A's stingy infield. And if you hope to rally, ponder the presence of ace reliever Dennis Eckersley, who has issued only seven bases on balls in two years. You can run but you can't walk...
LEADING LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson -- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard...
...Several years later, the KGB station in Ottawa leaked some phony documents on CIA letterhead purporting to show that U.S. agents were secretly aiding the Quebec Liberation Front and in various other ways trying to destabilize the central government. An American spook took his Soviet counterpart to lunch and said, "You really want to play this game? Your country may someday have secession problems a lot bigger than Canada...