Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case officers who were running highly sensitive penetrations of friendly governments, say intelligence sources. Convicted spy Aldrich Ames, the sources say, told investigators that he had revealed the European operations to Moscow. The CIA became concerned that Russia might inform Western governments, so the spies were withdrawn to head off scandal. The operatives were posing as businesspeople and would not have had diplomatic immunity had they been caught...
...inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
...battallion's worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced older Cobra helicopter gunships with new, more potent Apaches. Pentagon officials say all key ports and airfields are being fine-tuned for action. Fuel supplies and depots are being topped off at maximum capacity. The U.S. has withdrawn older iron bombs and replaced them with laser-guided weapons and other "smart bombs" of the kind that performed so well during the Gulf War. But efforts to persuade the South Koreans to redeploy some of their troops away from the DMZ have failed...
Next, we move on to the saga of Vice president Joshua "Lieutenant Colonel" D. Liston '95, the current corruption king of the Council. Liston's censure was withdrawn when the Council (with barely 55 percent of its seats voting), agreed with Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94 that the procedure had been invalid. We must ask why on earth Smith waited until after the vote to decide whether it was meaningless...
...accepting student scholarships, Harvard is directly participating in the military's ban on gays. On the other hand, the military has never withdrawn research funds on the basis of sexual orientation. We are advocating a direct boycott...