Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fuentes proves an amiable and erudite video guide, equally at ease critiquing a painting by Goya, sipping coffee in a smoky tango club in Buenos Aires, or pointing out the erotic audacity of the Spanish torerillos ("Where else can the male strike such provocative poses except in the bull ring...
...greater than even Martin Scorsese can muster. Vittorio Amuso, head of the New York City-based Lucchese crime family, was convicted last week on 54 counts of murder and racketeering. Two days later, a federal judge in Boston sentenced Raymond Patriarca, former head of the eponymous New England Mob ring, to an eight-year prison term. But the grief doesn't end there. Scheduled for sentencing this week is glamour don John Gotti...
Does this add up to a new, from-Russia-with-love era? Hardly. Moscow's Belgian spy ring was blown by a top Russian diplomat in Brussels who has been singing like a canary to the CIA since defecting to the West last year; he spilled details of an elaborate and expanding Russian network based in the Belgian capital. The case demonstrates the Kremlin's hunger for foreign military and industrial secrets despite the end of the cold war. "They would feel absolutely naked without an espionage service," says a senior British diplomat. "Their innate suspicion of foreigners demands...
...what former President Francesco Cossiga called the largest Soviet network ever uncovered in Europe. Since the espionage arrests in Belgium, the Dutch government has expelled four Russians engaged in covert activity, while France, acting on a tip from the CIA, has uncovered five apparently unwitting accomplices to the Russian ring that operated out of Brussels...
...German officials estimate that about 1,000 are still in place and that about 300 of them have switched their allegiance to C.I.S.espionage agencies. Earlier this year, a German employee of the U.S. mission in Berlin and two former Stasi officers were arrested for belonging to a spy ring that targeted U.S. Air Force personnel in Europe. Significantly, one of the ex- Stasi men was already working on the Kremlin's behalf, according to federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl. In Britain senior officials say at least 50 Russian spies are active in London alone; the government is considering the expulsion...