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...authorities tried to pinpoint the losses and pursue other leads, the nation struggled with the disturbing implications of the Walker case and other recent spy arrests. Suddenly, ordinary Americans seemed all too willing to betray their country, not for ideology, as in Stalin's early days, but for money, prestige and thrills. The Walker fiasco also made the U.S. acutely aware of its growing vulnerability to spies. More Soviet agents are operating in the U.S. than ever before, and the number of military and technological secrets is growing exponentially. Says Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security...
Secret agents, once their work is done, are lionized in the U.S.S.R. Richard Sorge, a German who spied for Joseph Stalin in Japan during World War II, is honored on a postage stamp. Rudolph Abel, one of the most notorious Soviet agents of the '50s, was awarded the Order of Lenin after he was traded for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962. KGB anniversaries are occasions for rallies and testimonials. "The competent organs," a common euphemism for the intelligence services, make up a kind of superelite. For years it was a basic tenet of Kremlinological wisdom that...
...Glass's early minimalist pieces relied heavily on unvarnished scale passages, enraging some listeners who thought his music sounded more like etudes than formal compositions. Anderson tried her hand at sculpture before evolving her distinctive combination of music, narrative, films and slides. In The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, which received its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work. Many found it initially difficult to come to terms with the avant-garde's startling modernist images, such as Stalin...
...said that in March of 1942 . . . in certain present-day standards of something called 'credibility,' he would have been telling the quote truth unquote. But . . . he would have been telling a profound lie because he and Churchill and Stalin and millions of us mobilized faith and hope in necessity . . . Now, you must not expect people to try to poor-mouth % what it is they are trying to accomplish. Nobody else does it. Why should we in government...
...Reagan meant to set the past to rest, Bitburg brought it back to angry life. Yet there were many voices muttering, "Must we hear about the Holocaust again?" There have, after all, been other great tragedies in history--the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's liquidation of millions of kulaks and the enforced famine in the Ukraine in 1932-33, the destruction of perhaps 2 million Kampucheans by their own Khmer Rouge countrymen...