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NEWS ABOUT: defection

defection stories: 5 news summaries
ANALYSIS

Defector Specter Just Playing to Pa. Primary Politics

Shrewd senator had no future as a Republican

Apr 28, 09 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why did Arlen Specter defect? It’s tempting to paint Specter as part of a post-Obama ideological realignment, but there’s a much more concrete explanation, Eric Kleefeld writes for Talking Points Memo: reelection. Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state, and between 150,000 and 200,000 registered Republicans switched parties... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • GOP • Arlen Specter • Democrat • defection • electability • President Obama

Cuban Players Ditch US Hotel, May Plan to Defect

Cuba's soccer prez denies the 2 men ever left for United States

Oct 11, 08 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two Cuban soccer players fled a US hotel in Virginia yesterday and may plan to defect, the Washington Post reports. Pedro Faife, 24, and Reynier Alcantara, 26, are slated to play in a World Cup qualifier tonight and have not turned themselves in to Customs—but Cuba's coach doesn't... More »

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World Cup • Cuba • United States • soccer • Communism • defection

Navratilova 'Defects' Again From 'Worse' Bush Regime

Tennis champ regains her Czech citizenship

Mar 12, 08 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thirty years after defecting to the US, at the height of the Cold War, tennis ace Martina Navratilova has regained her Czech citizenship, the Independent reports. The racket star became a US citizen in 1981. She plans to retain her US citizenship as well but she had some harsh criticism... More »

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tennis • Czech Republic • Cold War • US Open Tennis • defection • Martina Navratilova

CIA Recruited Iranian Officials to Defect

A 'handful' left
in US plot to
disrupt nuke program

Dec 9, 07 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The CIA plotted to recruit Iranian officials to defect and managed to entice a handful to do so over the last two years, reports the Los Angeles Times. The secret program, begun in 2005, was intended to disrupt Iranian nuclear research. The primary criterion for recruitment, according to a former... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • CIA • defection • defectors

KGB Doggedly Stalked Nureyev

Russians wanted
to break defector dancer’s legs

Sep 19, 07 8:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - He was never interested in politics, but Rudolf Nureyev was a KGB scourge for decades after his 1961 defection. The famed ballet dancer’s colleagues were glad to see him go—‘Rudik’ was a prima donna to management and competition for fellow performers—but the state was incensed, the... More »

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Russia • KGB • ballet • USSR • Rudolf Nureyev • defection • Yuri Gagarin

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