Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest jailing, of Sergeant John Weirick, 26, spread the contamination to the U.S. consulate in Leningrad, where Weirick, too, allegedly permitted KGB agents to enter at the urging of a Soviet woman. That prompted the State Department to cut off all electronic communications with the consulate and order the recall of the six-man Marine contingent in Leningrad, as it had earlier recalled the 28-man detail at the Moscow embassy. Ominously, Weirick's alleged collaboration with the KGB occurred in 1982, four years earlier than the Moscow treachery, indicating a long-standing security breach...
...seduced into espionage at the U.S. embassy in Moscow took a broader and more ominous turn last week. A third Marine was charged with illegal fraternization with Soviet women, and two other pairs of former embassy guards are suspected of having been compromised by female contacts. As the scandal spread, both the Marine and State Department supervisors of the 28-man guard contingent came under increasing criticism for their failure to monitor the behavior of the Marines more closely. Rather than clean-cut Americans being entrapped by their innocence, it seems, all too many of the guards were hard-drinking...
...million in demonstration projects works out to just $2 million per congressional district spread over five years. Even though, to paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, a million here and a million there eventually add up to real money, that is a pretty meager sum alongside the public-works projects that used to be whooped through Congress in the days before the deficit doldrums. As Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky cracked, "Calling this a pork-barrel bill is like calling a strip of bacon a luau...
Justiniani's political evolution is typical of how the Communist movement has spread through Philippine society. The daughter of a rich landowner on the island of Negros, a Communist stronghold, she joined the rebels in 1973, when she was 17. Deceptively gentle in appearance, Justiniani was at first stirred by the nationalist opposition to the Marcos government's pro-American policies. Now a rigorous Marxism sustains her. After spending years in the jungle, she claims, "I know the peasants and what they feel. I have witnessed their suffering. In some ways I have shared it. The army backs the landlords...
Relations between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in southern Egypt have been less than neighborly in recent years. So the fire was fanned when rumors spread last month that Coptic troublemakers were spraying the veils of Muslim women with a mysterious substance that caused crosses to appear on the material. As the tale swept through several towns, mobs of Muslim youths went on a rampage...