Word: virginia
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Souther left the Navy in 1982 to study Russian literature at Virginia's Old Dominion University. He also worked as a reservist at the Atlantic fleet intelligence center in Norfolk. He was assigned to a laboratory processing satellite-reconnaissance photos and also might have been privy to sensitive communications intercepts. The investigation into his ex-wife's allegations was reopened in 1986, and after questioning by the FBI, Souther defected. In spite of his warm reception by the KGB, his marriage to a Russian and the birth of their daughter, he was not happy in Moscow. "I haven't found...
...wake of Bracy's statement, an interagency team led by the CIA began shipping suspect equipment back to Washington. Machinery was returned to the U.S., taken apart and painstakingly studied under a program code-named Operation Merit. Most of the equipment went to a CIA facility in Virginia; communications gear was sent first to NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., then joined the rest of the freight at the CIA warehouse...
...constitutional amendment to carve an unprecedented exception in the Bill of Rights and allow states to make flag burning a crime. Bush delivered his announcement while standing with Republican congressional leaders in front of the Iwo Jima memorial at a hurriedly arranged photo opportunity near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. "The flag is too sacred to be abused," he said. "If it is not defended, it is defamed...
...wave it." Civil liberties advocates approved, though some were worried that the case had been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed by the decision," said David O'Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, "but he would have been appalled that it was a 5-to-4 vote...
...marks his sharpest break yet from the policies of his predecessor. But Democrats Robert Byrd, the former Senate majority leader, and John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also blocked legislation, in deference to the fears of miners of high-sulfur coal in Byrd's West Virginia and automakers and -workers in Dingell's Michigan...