European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday november 27, 1985 columns & comments today s crossword Cia counter i hit l16ence since to or Chenab affair,7hat$ wk6n on a whol6 & meaning. Nof Only was defector defect be he never picked up restaurant Tab by Art Buchwald i was jogging in Langley va., when i spied k i rubber boots hosing Down a Ford in the Cia car Wash. This surprised me because k ranked fourth from the top in the company s hic Archy and was the last person expected to Sec swabbing cars. What gives i asked him. K cussed "1 owe this to Vitaly you knew Vitaly Yurchenko i nol Only knew him i was his baby 1 said i m Don t be. That s Why i m washing what a Tumble for no. 4 in the somebody had to be the fall Guy when the rat Rcd acc cd to k sat on the bumper of a Sedan. As Yurchenko s Nanny my orders were to stay with him Day and night and Sec that a his needs were taken care of. If he wanted pizza i got him pizza if he wanted to Sec an a rated movie on a i checked one out and if he wanted to play trivial Pursuit 1 gave him All the easy questions. There was t anything 1 could produce including two tickets to the redskins i did t know the Cia had redskins we Don l. Someone in our basement forges them for us when we re on company were you the one who took Yurchenko to Ottawa so he could meet his soviet mistress of course i was. Yurchenko told me As we drove Piha till lie had to do to get his loved one to defect was whistle. But it did t work out that Way. Yurchenko whistled and his Paramour gave him the Bronx Kab agent were never Good it was a Gamble. What we did t know was that Natasha or whatever the hell her name was had been stringing Yurchenko along. She never had any intention of running off with him and raising a Houseful of Little defectors in what did Yurchenko do when he realized he had made the trip for nothing he went into a Funk and told me he no longer believed in the american nothing you be told me so far explains what you arc doing in the Cia car although the Ottawa trip did not go As expected iwas forgiven by the director and still permitted to be Yurchenko s baby Sitter. I took him to the smithsonian the Kennedy Center the Capitol and stood in line six hours for a tour of the White in t that a dangerous place for a defector the soviets would never look for a turncoat in tourist line at the White House. In any Case my Job was to keep him Happy. The Only thing that drove me up the Wall was Yurchenko never picked up a Tab. I mean we re talking about 120 Days of breakfast lunch and dinner. Every time the Check came he sat there with his hands in his pockets and pretended he did t Sec the Saucer. Would t this Tec you off yes it would. But was t it the Cia s Money maybe so but Yurchenko could at least have made a gesture. The final Straw was when i took him to dinner at the a pied do Cochon in Georgetown. I made up my mind that for just once Vitaly was going to pay the Bill. When it came we sat there staring at each other. I did t make above and neither did he. Finally he said to me what if i walked out of this restaurant without paying the Check would you shoot me i said of course not. We Don t shoot cheap defectors who won t pick up the Tab so yur Chunko got up and left. I gave the waiter my credit card but by the time i returned it was too late. Yurchenko was sleeping safely in the soviet i said now 1 understand everything except Why they assigned you to the car k wiped a fender with a Chamois cloth. The boys on the seventh floor believe this is the Best place to hide until Bill Casey no longer wants to c los Aneyci Terr i by Eugene Sheffer across1 surpass 4 Roy s wife8 recruit 12 poem 13black14 sicilian erupted 15 Mala Gibbon 16 Blac Snoop s possession18 Island off venezuela20 Rod or dead 21 inquires24 male Duck 28 mistress Mary 32 wicked33 i camera"34 Dieter s dish36 it might be indelible 37 gives Abad review 39 it s nine Days old?41 liners 43 Light Gas?44 thing in Law 46 begin Ning 50 Aladdin Sprize 65 philippine. Native56 War god 87 Mayberry hoy58 Rig Bertha for one59 nor., s Home 60 poet 61 River Island down1 son drink2 jewish month 3 andean country4 Lowers 5 Legal org.6 Pilot s record7 Adam s grandson 8 Takecare 9 Indian Yoko 11 former chess champ17 nourished 19 evil22 Knoll 23 Les relies 25 eager 28 Brynner role 27 actress sommer28 breaches 29 Oriental nurse 30 Punjab Princess i unusual 35 sagged 38 kind of race 40 Motel s pred ecessor42 dry As wine45 Messy person incl 11-27aiu. To yesterday s Puzzle 11-27 Hubert dark / these newfangled Mabel 00ught
