Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman he met during a tour of duty at the Moscow embassy; he is currently being held at the Marine base in Quantico, Va. As a result of such discoveries, the State Department has replaced five possibly tainted communications centers: in Moscow...
...after its first season, a record-breaking number for one series; 26 all together), then a growing corps of dedicated viewers. People who claimed to watch little else on TV would tune in faithfully for the intricate and often explosive drama that swirled around a bustling inner-city police station. Last week, however, a closing notice went up at the station house as Hill Street Blues, after seven seasons, was canceled...
...senior officers in full dress uniforms complete with immaculate stiff shirts and white ties, striding down the middle of the street with beautiful women on their arms. They might have been reclaiming the French Quarter. Later that week we heard the Captain being interviewed on a French language radio station. He sounded sutably Gallic and urbane but slightly bored, the retired imperialist paying his colonial social dues. Indeed, New Orleans is one of the few ports in the world where the French Navy can still feel like conquering heroes. The Captain was in his glory on Bourbon Street...
...belly dancer, I've gotten to play a lot of different parts," said Kathy Cashin, from Kingston, Mass. "One of my specialties is my Mae West interpretation," added the sometime singing telegram performer, who heard about the tryouts on WMGX radio station...
...purred down clean streets kept orderly by serried ranks of trusted policemen. The skyline, crowned by the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building, was the most imposing man-made sight in the world, and at night it glowed with the fires of 2 million aspirations. Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could get information on any subject whatsoever -- and they did, 167,000 times a year. The glorious profligacy of the place was astounding: "Why," remarked one astonished observer, "the garbage thrown away in this city every...