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Individual Reading: "The Patriots Games" by Tom Clancy: week 4 (p. 307 from 365)



Summary

There is some information about Mr. Cooley: he is fond of literature, reads a lot, has his own bookstore. The most interesting fact is that he has been educated with Kevin O’Donnell. But at the same time, there are no evidences concerning which the police can find any connections between both of them.

Jack is very busy in CIA. He is to give up his work at the Academy. He is overwhelmed with information. With Ryan’s help the woman in bikini is recognized. It is a famous French killer – Francua Terra. Marty Cantor believes that one day Mr. Ryan will replace him.

There is a new job for Alex and his team. Their goals is to find snapshots of area where the Ryans lives for Miller. The assassinators also has the plan to down Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and the Princess, but persuasion of the Royal Family is higher than terrorists’ plan. In their turn, the American secret services are going to protect the Royal family during their visit. David Ashley, the chief of the FBI in Britain, and James Owens, the head of C-13 have only suspicious without any evidence. That’s why they can’t clap y the heels Cooley and Watkins.

O’Donnell and his gang have a new plan how to prejudice Jack and his family. They need about 20 attackers for it, including Alex and his friends to release the plan. Alex is an electric. He uses his work to look after Jack and his family. But Alex’s group doesn’t want Sally and Cathy to be suffered.

Jack and Gunny shoot from pistols. Mr. Ryan can easily be a member of shooting Gunny’s team. Gunny is a good friend who offers his help. It’s the momet when Sally has to return back home. Jack wants his child to be as she has been before the accident. That’s why the father presents her a small Labrador. The dog helps her to return to the normal life again.

Owens and Murray become close friends. The first one asks his colleague to cancel the future trip of Their Royal Highnesses. Both agents know that there is leak of data, so, consequently the places where the Prince and the Princess are going to visit are in secret.

Jean Claude, the French agent of CIA and his group catch the woman who is the multiple murderer and her 4 allies. All these happen because of Jack and his reports. The captured assassins are sent to the chair. But before it, two of them cough up about two other terrorist and warehouse full of weapons and explosive. All these things are neutralized as quickly as it possible.

The father and the son, who one day come to the FBI, bring the Uzi pistol which they have found in the charging pace. Their the father makes woods and the son gets fish, during this process he finds the pistol. The investigation shows that it is the pistol which has been used to fire Cathy’s Porsche.

CIA and FBI start to search the charging place to find terrorists’ traces. But proves have been already destroyed: every Saturday young people and many other come here and spend their free time. Alex knows it and is not agitated, but he clean forgets that one day the father has helped him to extract his van from dirt.

There is a fire in Cooley’s shop. When an electrician changes harnessing he finds the leader with microphone. It makes him confused. He tries to escape and finally he manages to do it. The police is in fear especially Owens and Murray.

Mr. Cooley is found in the camp which will be under attack by the CIA secret services. It’s easy to figure out him as he is the unique skinhead in the camp. Cooley wants to take an opportunity in operation, because British police deprives him to work with books.

The British ambassador declares that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and the Princess of Wales will visit Jack and Cathy. The Ryans asks to let their friends Robby and his wife be their too, as, as it has been planed, to be their farewell party.

 Culture Words


1. Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard, though an official Scotland Yard never has existed) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London. The name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.[1] The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station, and over time the street and the Metropolitan Police became synonymous. The New York Times wrote in 1964 that just as Wall Street gave its name to New York's financial district, Scotland Yard did the same for police activity in London.

2. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Tsentralniy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoi Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza – TsK KPSS), abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tse-ka", was de jure the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) between Party Congresses. According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress. Members of the committee were elected at the Party Congresses. During Vladimir Lenin's leadership of the Communist Party, the Central Committee functioned as the highest party authority between congresses. However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau (Politburo) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses. Some delegates objected to the establishment of the Politburo, and in response, the Politburo became responsible to the Central Committee, and Central Committee members could participate in Politburo sessions with a consultative voice, but could not vote unless they were members. Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin took power in the Communist Party through the office of General Secretary of the Central Committee, the leading Secretary of the Secretariat. With Stalin's takeover, the role of the Central Committee was eclipsed by the Politburo, which consisted of a small clique of loyal Stalinists. By Stalin's death in 1953, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ, which was responsible to the Politburo, and not the other way around. The death of Stalin revitalised the Central Committee, and it became an important institution during the power struggle to succeed Stalin. Following Khrushchev's ascension to power, the Central Committee still played a leading role; it overturned the Politburo's decision to remove Khrushchev from office in 1957. In 1964, the Central Committee ousted Khrushchev from power, and elected Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary. The Central Committee was an important organ in the beginning of Brezhnev's rule, but lost effective power to the Politburo. From then on, until the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Central Committee played a minor role in the running of the party and state – the Politburo was the highest political organ in the Soviet Union.

3. KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time. The KGB has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available.Belarus is the only former Soviet state to have kept the name "State Security Committee" - and the abbreviation KGB - for its national security agency. (See State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus)After breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name).

4. The Uzi is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns. Smaller variants are considered to be machine pistols. The Uzi was one of the first weapons to use a telescoping bolt design which allows for the magazine to be housed in the pistol grip for a shorter weapon. The first Uzi submachine gun was designed by Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s. The prototype was finished in 1950. First introduced to IDF special forces in 1954, the weapon was placed into general issue two years later. The Uzi has found use as a personal defense weapon by rear-echelon troops, officers, artillery troops and tankers, as well as a frontline weapon by elite light infantry assault forces.

5. M.V. Frunze Military Academy - The Frunze Military Academy was established in 1918 as the academy of the General Staff. In 1921, it was transformed into the RKKA Military Academy. It is named after Mikhail Frunze who was the USSR Minister of Defence in mid-1920s and is located in Moscow. It is roughly the equivalent of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS or the British Army's Staff College, Camberley. Officers usually enter when they are between late twenties and thirty-two years old with the rank of Captain or Major, depending on whether they pass the competitive entry examinations. 

Questions


1.      Is it difficult to work on two jobs at the same time?

2.      Do animals help us to return to our noramal life?

3.      Why does Alex want to protect Cathy and Sally?

4.      Are books the hoby of Mr. Cooley?

5.      Is it good to kill terrorists?

Words

1.      a rifleman – рядовой стрелковой части

2.      a fellow spook – приятель-шпион

3.      to execute – казнить

4.      to commit a murder – совершать убийство

5.      to be subjected to a metal detector – быть проверенным детектором

6.      to be a worthwhile target – быть подходящей/стоящей целью

7.      to hammer – обстрелять

8.      to go out into the field – участвовать в сражении

9.      a terrorist network – террористическая сеть

10.  rounds on the paper – пули в бумажной мишени

11.  a bulletproof glass – пуленепробиваемое стекло

12.  to hold a gun on somebody – под дулом пистолета

13.  to be in the service – проходить службу

14.  a pistol – пистолет

15.  an ejected cartridge – использованная гильза

16.  ao interview a witness – опрашивать свидетеля

17.  to be well-armed – быть хорошо вооруженным

18.  a firearm – огнестрельное оружие

19.  to lay in wait for – устроить засаду

20.  to be sentenced to prison for the remainder of one’s natural life – попасть в тюрьму пожизненно



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