Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...support, while the Army has to depend on the Air Force. The Army's mobile divisions, on the other hand, can drop on targets from aircraft. But to gain such mobility, they must travel with less artillery and heavy armor. The lightly armed Special Operations Forces are equipped to make lightning raids behind enemy front lines. Still, there is enormous overlap between the three separate forces. Taken together, they are simply too much of a good thing...
Whenever I left the building, my KGB tails would shadow me. I came to know many by sight. When I walked in the woods, I more than once flushed an observer hiding behind a tree, who would then dash away. We were prevented from making long-distance calls; whenever we went to a post office to do so, the phones were "out of order" -- KGB shadows had been there ahead of us. Once I managed to make a call by carrying out a trash can, dropping it off and continuing to a post office. From that day on, a policeman...
...morning of Dec. 23 we stepped off the train at Moscow's Yaroslavl Station onto a platform teeming with reporters. It took me 40 minutes to make my way through the crowd. Hundreds of flashbulbs blinded me and microphones were continually thrust into my face as I tried to respond to the barrage of questions. The whole scene offered a preview of the hurly-burly life that now awaited...
...Deputy Procurator-General, telephoned and asked me to come see him. At his office on Pushkin Street, Malyarov said that meeting with the foreign press, as I had been doing in behalf of dissidents, could be regarded as a violation of my obligation not to disclose state secrets. To make it clear that I was determined to go on speaking out, I decided to hold a major press conference...
...with our "landlady" and had taken a look around the apartment, which had four rooms (one reserved for the landlady), plus kitchen and bathroom. The landlady told Lusia she was the widow of a KGB officer. (It took us six months to discover what her real duties were: to make sure that the window in her room was left unbolted to allow KGB agents access to the apartment from the street, bypassing the police manning a watch post.) As I appeared, she retired to her room...