Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...give the Knicks a chance this year? Numbers turn around, odds don't always favor just one team. The Knicks are due, and this could be the year the 'Bockers can actually steal one from the Celtics on the parquet...
...Europe. One recent Soviet defector has disclosed that the KGB's Department T, which specializes in industrial espionage, illicitly gathered 25,000 technical documents and 4,000 pieces of machinery from 1984 to 1988. Several African intelligence services are cooperating with the KGB in their countries in attempts to steal U.S. secrets abroad. "Soviet intelligence is more aggressive than it's been at anytime in the last decade," argues Oliver Revell, the FBI's associate deputy director in charge of investigations...
...control agreements. By the end of the year the U.S. and the Soviets will most likely sign five arms agreements, including a new START treaty. All will probably require permanent on-site monitoring of U.S. and Soviet defense facilities, providing many potential listening posts from which to observe and steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, additional manpower will be needed to track the inspectors. Says the CIA's Webster...
...Crimson closed out the running events with one of the most exciting races of the day, the 4x400-meter relay. Ian Steaman and Eric Rahe both ran excellent legs to lead the Crimson to a victory. Rahe, the anchor leg, was forced to come from behind to steal first place...
Nevertheless, Vargas Llosa tries to steal two or three hours in the mornings for reading, writing and contemplation. Mostly he reads poetry for its quick burst of language, but he admits that he finds it hard to concentrate these days. No doubt Peruvian reality rivals even the most artful and engaging of his novels. In Conversations in the Cathedral (1969) and The War at the End of the World (1984), the two books of which he is proudest, Vargas Llosa explored fanaticism, apocalypse and corruption. If he is elected President, Vargas Llosa will have to contend more directly with these...