the important thing about 0leg lyalin, the defector, was that he dotted the is and crossed the ts, andealised that there were even more soviet intelligence officers masquerading as diplomats than we'd previously thought. and he gave us a pretty good idea of the scope of their activities, which was very large. the reason these men had to go was simply that their organisation had outgrown the resources of our organisation, whose job it was to deal with them. the russians were given two weeks to leave when the expulsions were announced on september 24th. today's sailing means that they've gone almost a week early. looking back on it from today's perspective, i very much think that it was the best thing to do, because respect for us from the soviet side went up, i think. although they didn't like it, but it certainly went up. they dealt with us more seriously after that, they took us more seriously. george walden. now a devastating story about a town that was effectively wiped out by asbestos. wittenoom, in western australia, grew up around an asbestos mine in the 1940s, but little did the