James Bond would have been mortified by the scene. At London's Tilbury Docks one afternoon last week, three mud-spattered school buses squealed to a halt and disgorged 200 Russians, including 70 of the 105 Soviet officials named as spies by the British government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier...
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