"He has always been engaging, very specific,very clear, very talkative,very energetic, has a lot of bold ideas, but has always said that the Cuban people were friends of the American people and wanted to see normal relations take place.

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Whether they believed him or not, a talkative agent was a menace to the intelligence service.

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But Mr Laar, a talkative man in a taciturn nation, sometimes seems better at burnishing his country's image to foreigners than at connecting with his own people, many of whom think of him as glib, even slippery.

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Mr. Marsland, 52, is a talkative white man who had lived in a small town outside Binghamton since he was a child.

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