Word: though
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...most visible sign of a possible fissure within the ruling elite was the execution last July of Major General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a celebrated war hero, and three other officers. Though they were charged with drug smuggling and corruption, many Cuban exiles believe their real crime was to pose a threat to Castro and his brother Raul, the Defense Minister and heir designate. Meanwhile, the government jailed at least ten human-rights activists last year. The U.S. State Department's annual human-rights report, which was issued last week, lambasted Cuba's record, which it said had "worsened significantly...
...names to see if there is anything of interest . . . Yet, is American society becoming too obsessed with gossip, too absorbed with the private lives of public people? . . . For Naushad Mehta, interviewing columnist Liz Smith and her brethren for this week's cover stories was an amusing change of pace . . . Though Mehta kept asking about the troublesome issues raised by our national infatuation with the trivial, her subjects kept changing the topic to . . . you guessed it. Says Mehta: "They usually prefaced their gossip with the words 'Don't quote me on this...
...deliberately and purposefully had started to cooperate with the British in order to help the security of Britain and the West, the U.S. not least, and continued as a British agent for years, and was prepared to continue for many more years, even though I knew my situation was getting increasingly dangerous. Then I was trapped by the KGB by a false excuse and taken to Moscow, where I was drugged and interrogated. So in my case, it was a long collaboration with the British, and then a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union in 1985. Would I still...
...time, in case of danger. But even with careful planning it was an extremely difficult and dangerous enterprise. When they took me back to Moscow, I thought it was all over, I would die. They drugged me, interrogated me, but then let me go, I don't know why, though the KGB kept me under surveillance all the time. But I managed to act on my escape plan -- despite some difficulties and some encounters on the way to the border with the police and the KGB -- and cross the border to the West, which was a fantastic relief. I felt...
...know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...