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KGB Ex-General Assails Infiltration of Soviet Society; Despite Campaign to Change Image, Government's Spies Are Called `Omnipresent'
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The KGB under Mikhail Gorbachev continues to infiltrate every
workplace, church, artistic union and political group in the Soviet
Union, although the intelligence organization is now filled with many
dissident officers, according to former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin.
Kalugin, once the press attache' in the Soviet Embassy in
Washington in the 1960s and then the Foreign Ministry's chief of
counter-intelligence, stunned a congress of Communist Party
progressives in the group Democratic Platform today when he took the
podium at the October Theater to describe his career in
cloak-and-dagger ...
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Osprey Publishing.(Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey - Clash of the Titans)(Hitler's Home Guard: Volkssturmman)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch
; ...units and specialized military history, and are perfect references for the in-depth military collection. Si Sheppard's PHARSALUS 48 BC: CAESAR AND POMPEY--CLASH OF THE TITANS (1846030021, $18.95) covers early military history in chronicling...
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Surprise in a rug.(Julius Caesar and Cleopatra)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Caesar have but to fight? Caesar recalled his victory over Pompey at Pharsalus, Greece. He reflected how this recent joy had turned to horror when he followed Pompey from Pharsalus to Alexandria. Egyptian authorities had greeted Caesar with his...
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Questions, Chreiai, and challenges to honor: The interface of rhetoric and culture in Mark's Gospel
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...From Cicero he draws the following example: "What was that sword of yours doing, Tubero, that was drawn on the field of Pharsalus?" (Cicero, Pro Lig. 3.9). Some questions put an audience on the spot: "We may also ask what cannot be denied...
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 "Pretoria News (South Africa)")
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SOON ... it will all be history.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa)
; ...manipulation of chronological occurrences that had historians choking on their pipes. For one thing, the year before the Battle of Pharsalus (during which Pompeius' supporters were driven out of Spain by Caesar), as well as the Battle of Dyrrhachium (when Caesar...
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Pay with oil: in Leptis, you were better off soaked in oil than loaded with cash.
Magazine article from: Dig
; ...who accompanied him were loyal to Pompey. But, in battle against Caesar, they had just suffered a disastrous defeat at Pharsalus in Greece. Olives Pay the Fine In his determination to topple the opposition's strength, Caesar swept through North Africa...
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parameters
; ...to Britain, the First Triumvirate, and the eventual crossing of the Rubicon. I had almost lost interest in Caesar after Pharsalus, the climatic battle of the civil war when Caesar beat Pompey. Goldsworthy, however, makes the rest of Caesar's life...
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The boy who would be emperor Peter Jones looks at how Julius Caesar's adopted son turned himself into the Emperor Augustus
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Carthage destroyed in 167 bc (it was 146 bc); on page two that the Latin for Catiline was Catilinus (it was Catilina); Pharsalus on the map becomes Pharsala on the page; and so on. This does not create confidence in an author who affects an irritating...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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The Great Patriotic War Today and Yesterday, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia)
; ...of history as the Hundred Years' War, and the Battle of Stalingrad means about as much to them as the ancient Battle of Pharsalus. It is hard to imagine a teenager today who can rattle off the stages of the Soviet victory over Fascist Germany without...
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World conqueror.(Julius Caesar)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Greece, where Pompey had fled with his supporters to raise an army and a navy. The political rivals met on the battlefield at Pharsalus. Yet, even though Pompey's forces outnumbered Caesar's by more than two to one, he lost in a stunning turnaround...
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Daughter of a king.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...reconstruct this view of Alexandria around 100 B.C. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pompey escapes to Egypt following his defeat at Pharsalus by Julius Caesar. R. Anthony Kugler has his Ph.D. in classics from Brown University. He lives and writes in Madison...
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