Word: turncoats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier efforts, Thunderball. In that offering, the con-partisan bad guys, SPECTRE, captured a etched U.S. Air Force plane with nuclear missiles a board and then ransomed it to the world. This name, SPECTRE is up to evil doings once again, filtrating NATO's strategic bomber command with a turncoat U.S. Air Force officer, sending two cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads into the Atlantic--where, again, the evil group is waiting to claim and ransom them...
...hypothetical. During the campaign for the 1976 Democratic nomination, he served as policy director for Contender Morris Udall, the Arizona Congressman. In the summer of 1975, Bracy says he was "kind of horrified" to be offered "inside strategy and plans" from the Carter organization by a putative Carterite turncoat. He refused, and told the Georgians. Of course, for all of Bracy's admirable fair play, the documents may not have been so tempting: the offer came some eight months before the first primaries, when Udall's adversary was still "Jimmy...
...fled to the Soviet Union, the same year that Burgess died. In Moscow, Maclean had an innocuous job with a foreign policy think tank and, always a heavy drinker, died alone in his luxurious apartment. Said a Soviet official: "He had no Russian friends. Nobody likes a turncoat-in any country...
...economy played a major role in most Democratic gains in the industrial Midwest, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Texas. One Pennsylvania showdown featured Eugene Atkinson, who crossed the aisle last year to become a Republican convert at the height of Reagan's popularity. The voters resoundingly turned out the turncoat (61% to 39%) when he attempted to defend Reaganomics to the unemployed steelworkers...
...blocs-about 20% more whites than blacks are registered to vote. This disparity has black organizations scrambling to sign up an estimated 70,000 eligible but unregistered blacks in the district's 21 counties. Former Circuit Court Judge Franklin, 40, is a convert to the Republican Party. His turncoat status does not seem to bother the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is pouring $34,000 into his campaign. Franklin's total campaign budget of $225,000 is half again as fat as Clark's $150,000, but both candidates have strong party support. Former President Gerald Ford...