Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western burden since the days of Kim Philby and his fellow double agents, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, all Cambridge graduates and members of the old-boy network, who were unmasked as Soviet agents. U.S. spymasters say that they have tried ever since to persuade their British counterparts to tighten security, but with only limited success. "The British are very good at gathering and analyzing information," says one intelligence expert. But, he notes, "they do not keep their eye on their people...
...most alienated segment of Polish society is the young. Whether headed for factories or universities, they see no prospect for great personal freedom or even for better economic conditions. Says a University of Warsaw professor: "The state of war has created a generation of opposition." Despite government efforts to tighten ideological controls and reinstitute mandatory classes in Marxism-Leninism, Polish youths are adopting styles of rebellion from their Western peers...
...wrongly, Western European leaders had been led by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and other officials to believe that the U.S. was willing to soften its opposition to the pipeline in the interest of harmony, and specifically in exchange for a European agreement-feeble though it was-to tighten credit to the Soviet bloc...
Clark believed that Haig had misrepresented the President's position, and he therefore set out to tighten restrictions on the pipeline. He called a meeting of the National Security Council in Washington on June 18-a day when, as he knew, Haig was scheduled to be in New York City conferring with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the urging of Clark, Weinberger and others, Reagan at the NSC meeting not only reaffirmed the original ban but ruled that U.S. companies could not permit their foreign subsidiaries, or foreign companies with American licenses, to make equipment for the pipeline...
Just south of Beirut, the Israelis slowly began to tighten the noose around Palestinian defenses, establishing commanding positions above the city's airport, east of the runways. Backed by Israeli artillery barrages, Christian Phalangist forces on Wednesday captured a Palestinian stronghold on the science campus of the Lebanese University at Shuweifat. Israeli officers denied that their commandos were involved. "The Christians are doing the fighting," explained an Israeli colonel. "We are just looking...