Word: agent
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Jordan shuns the title of chief of staff, and in any case, Carter seems to have no intention of giving it to him-or anybody else. Jordan admits he is a poor administrator. He would prefer to be a free agent, looking ahead down the political road. "I'm no good at advising on details of a program," he insists. "What I'm good at is conceptualizing the process by which goals are met. I have to have time to think and plan and not get bogged down in management of a staff. I look for good people...
...Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also gave his captors the secret phone number of Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv. He was convicted of participating in a murder and imprisoned for seven months...
...reign of Elizabeth I, an English agent for the Muscovy Co. of London had this advice about dealing with the Russians: "Make your bargains plain, and put them in writing." Americans staring across the mahogany of detente sometimes learn the hard way -in the 1972 wheat deal, for example -that, for Communists, the Russians can be very good at doing business...
Strindberg, of course, means us to view the wife as the catalytic agent in both men's pain and disaster...
Elsewhere, Gene Autry, the Angels' owner who thought he bought himself a pennant, now realizes that all he did was lasso himself another mediocre club. Million-dollar free agent Don Baylor is particularly useful to the team: his .207 batting average wouldn't let him play in the Pacific Coast League...