Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King Jr. and running wholesale spy operations against groups that opposed the Viet Nam War. A new and improved agency emerged during William Webster's nine years as director. But there was a palpable sense of deja vu in the air last week. First came news that a black agent had been racially harassed by his white colleagues. Then followed charges that the FBI had conducted wide- ranging surveillance of critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy...
...agreed to pay $420,822 each to Kraszewski and two other plaintiffs: Wilda Tipton, 45, of Ventura, Calif., and the estate of Daisy Jackson, who died in 1983. The settlement calls for possible payments of $15,575 to $420,822 to other women who applied for 1,113 sales-agent jobs in California during the past 13 1/2 years. State Farm believes the settlement will cost no more than $50 million, but the plaintiffs' attorney estimates that the bill will be as high as $300 million. That would make it the largest payout in the history of sex- discrimination suits...
...little more than collect the state's fat share of hard- currency earnings. Says Jana Jonasova, 44, a soprano at Prague's National Theater who has lost up to 70% of her fee for West European engagements to the Czechoslovak Pragokoncert agency: "I have to pay a Western agent another 20% to do the work. If I didn't organize things myself, I would never appear outside Prague...
Before a national television audience, Kim Hyon Hui, 26, a North Korean agent, tearfully described how she had placed a bomb disguised as a radio on the Baghdad-Seoul flight. The timer was set to go off several hours after she and her partner, Kim Sung Il, 69, disembarked in Abu Dhabi. The pair swallowed cyanide capsules when they were arrested shortly after the jetliner vanished. Kim Sung Il died, but Kim Hyon Hui recovered and was taken to Seoul, where she will soon stand trial...
Under fire for his role in Iranscam, the Vice President proves he is a candidate of rough- and- tumble as well as resume. -- It' s "Fat Boy" vs. "The Dirty Digger" as Ted Kennedy lands a sneak punch on Rupert Murdoch. -- An FBI agent describes five years undercover in the Mafia. -- Why is Al Haig running for President? To prove, in part, "I' m not the ogre people thought...