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...Hill is at least 15 strong. One of the prominent members is Yuri Barsakov, whose coyer is the Izvestia News Agency. Says a Senate aide: "Barsakov is right out of central casting. He's a heavy guy with bushy eyebrows. He offers tips on Soviet affairs, hoping to swap that dope for information." Another well-known operator is Igor Bubnov, an embassy counselor, who is described by a Senate staffer as "impossible-pompous and arrogant" and given to delivering long harangues in defense of his country. Other members of the Soviet squad: Anatoly I. Davydov, second secretary...
...Spain's leading magazines, fingered seven CIA agents in the American embassy in Madrid. Washington fears that CIA operatives in West Germany will be uncovered next. It has reached the point, a U.S. diplomat at the Paris Embassy sarcastically suggests, where the CIA and the U.S. Information Service swap offices, since "it's the CIA that seems to be generating all the publicity nowadays...
...legislature. Private holders of $1.6 billion in short-term city securities will be asked to exchange them for long-term bonds issued by the Municipal Assistance Corp.; the bonds will pay 8% to 9% interest and mature in ten to 15 years. Noteholders who refuse to make the swap will not be able to redeem their present securities until June 30, 1978; they will continue to draw interest but at a reduced rate...
...demanded that Randolph Hearst ransom his daughter by giving free food to California's poor in a program that could have cost as much as $400 million. When the publisher spent only $2 million, said the document, the S.L.A. became disillusioned about his intentions and never offered to swap prisoners...
...teams he cared about only marginally. But he could not bring himself to part with the A's. His resolve to keep them is stronger now because of a possible deal to move the team to Chicago next season. The American League is trying to work out a swap that would involve selling the White Sox to a Seattle syndicate, bringing the A's to Chicago and rechristening them the White Sox. Finley would like nothing better than wheeling and dealing for a hometown club. "Hell, we'd have 2 million fans come see us here," he says...