European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday november 22, 1985 column yflcne#0 Ferow Wewt today s crossword Yurchenko made Neihbors groan by Russell Baker when the world s great spy agencies get their hands on a rival spy the first thing they do is take him to a Safe House. So naturally when a the Boss of the Cia was told thai Vahaly Yurchenko of the Kab had defected his first word were. Take Safe i have it on excellent authority the Safe House s next door neighbors if you must know that the Safe House chosen to House Yurchenko safely is in Virginia. Its next door neighbors who asked not to be identified by name lest factual precision dispel the murkiness essential to a Good spy Story groaned in unison when the Cia pulled into the driveway with Yurchenko. The neighbourhood had been going steadily downhill for months because of the Safe House. You Don t see the better class of people coming and going Over there explained a local master of hounds. Mostly it s men wearing those off the rack Cement coloured suits favored by Cia people he said. Or it s russians and you know what condition they arrive heavily drugged with american truth scrums per haps i ventured. No he said. Heavily clothed in those Square Cut baggy suits that look like they must be made in a slave suit factory in so the average tenant at the Safe House does t Loo much like your typical Virginia Squire it s rare to Sec one you d want to Chase a Fox with he replied. So when the Cia group arrived with Yurchenko the neighbors groaned. Those with prospective buyers in petting their houses groaned loudest of All. A prospective buyer who can be identified Only As Was inspecting the saddling room of the House opposite the Safe House when he heard the owner groan although in deep agony he recalls. Following the owner s distressed gaze Looked and saw this stunning figure of a Man splendid Mous tache beautifully Cut suit elegant shirt with French cuffs Beautiful Necktie a fellow apparently tailored in London Rome and Paris being escorted into a House across the Street by a group of men wearing off the rack Cement coloured Thought it must be the governor a senator or a Kingpin of the cocaine Trade and would have instantly bought the House if the owner had t blurted you Don t have to worry about the Cia making a lot of noise Over there. Half the time the House sits Are you telling Rne that s a Safe House asked b., who was already living next door to a Safe House in Maryland owned a summer Home across the Street from a summer Safe House in Pennsylvania and was sick and tired of men wearing badly Cut suits. Half of the men spoke in russian accents. Those who saw Yurchenko s to appearance from the soviet embassy now realize that the vision of sartorial elegance which Saw was in fact the Kab defector who was destined to Delight the world s scrabble player by validating the word what happened in that Virginia Safe House seem Clear. Yurchenko. Surrounded Day and night by men wearing off the rack Cement coloured suits became appalled by the Wrabness of american tailoring and concluded that he had made a dreadful mistake. We next discover him in Washington. Unless you Are trying to obtain a huge sum of Money to squander there is very Little to do in Washington. One gets bored quickly. Eating helps to fight boredom. So naturally c., the Boss of the Cia was told that Yurchenko was hungry. And naturally he said take him to a Safe two minutes later a certain Cia executive whose title is too Long to print in this limited space lifted a ringing Telephone and remembered what he had forgot ten to do. Yurchenko wants to Chow Down his caller assaying. Where is the Safe restaurant where indeed three years ago this executive had received a memo Sayin soon of setting up a Chain of Safe drugstores supplying toothpaste Safe dental floss Safe mouthwash the whole Safe rigmarole. Then secretly opening All those Safe Haber dash eries with the Safe off the rack suits. Ill get Back to you he told the caller. I am starving moaned Yurchenko hours later what kind of agent would let a defector starve to death and so it was a snap for Yurchenko to walk out of an unsafe Reslau ivn"0? 1" Moscow. Ordering new Necktie from a pkg b Safe haberdasher in m Ink. C new York Tinct " ,re.,t in urdu i Nice years ago mis executive d re ave a saying set up network of Safe restaurants Onest. He had been distracted. First by that tedious Job of a ,? a drugstores supplying Safe stuff Tsau. About he sop tour Tea team no he. Auak atom Una s Hof Tascon. 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