Word: defectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sotto voce complaint, in addition, was that Soviet Defector Alexander Godunov had been offered a six-figure salary to dance with the A.B.T...
...acres of land just across a lake from a nine-acre ranch used by Barham and his wife Martha. Kübler-Ross called her property Shanti-Nilaya ("Home of Peace" in Sanskrit) and made it a center for workshops on death and dying. One result, says a defector from the center, is that "she is so emotionally dependent on the Barhams that...
...double defector tells of gunrunning from...
...international tears were shed as Pol Pot and the straggling remnants of his army were driven into western jungle pockets. From these redoubts, the Khmer Rouge has carried on vigorous resistance against the new regime, a pro-Vietnamese government headed by a former Khmer Rouge defector, Heng Samrin, and propped up by an estimated 130,000 Vietnamese troops. For China the fall of Cambodia meant an enormous loss of face. Ever since, as Teng admitted in Washington, China has steered weapons and supplies to Pol Pot's insurgency in an effort to reverse its fortunes and avenge its own humiliations...
...scene could have been an outtake from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold or Funeral in Berlin: a young East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn...