Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carries his own precipice around with him under his arm." With that somewhat surrealistic metaphor, an old friend describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan's habit of living close to the edge of trouble through his gift for overstatement and overreaction. But often the statements and reactions are deliberate. When a classified cable from Moynihan blasting the State Department surfaced in the press last week, it looked like the latest gambit in the intrigue between Moynihan and Henry Kissinger...
Cease-Fire. What made last week's events especially ominous was the entry of massed regular units of the Palestine Liberation Army into the fighting. Until then, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization-the P.L.A. is its military arm-had played a moderating role. But as the P.L.A. troops poured in from neighboring Syria, there were widespread fears of a new and broader war. To prevent such a catastrophe, all sides at midweek agreed to another hastily arranged cease-fire-the 23rd in the past four months. At week's end the truce appeared to be taking...
Tiny Budget. To keep track of the Soviet spies, Luxembourg has its own intelligence arm, the Service des Renseignements, which operates on a tiny budget of $80,000 and is said to have only half a dozen qualified gumshoes. "Given its size," says one espionage expert, "Luxembourg does a pretty good job. But they don't have the players for a John le Carré game...
...that a Justice Department review of the FBI's work will conclude there is no evidence of any kind that the FBI 1) helped arrange the killing, or 2) failed to do everything it could to run down the sniper and any conspirators. Since the FBI is an arm of the Justice Department, of course, that will carry little weight with most critics of the FBI's role. A more independent review would be required to still all doubts, and in fact Justice officials apparently will urge that a special prosecutor or independent commission be named to make...
...intelligence career started during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services. Two Frenchmen and I went into France to help organize, arm and supply the Maquis [France's anti-Nazi Resistance fighters]. I also went up to [Nazi-occupied] Norway with a small team. We operated on our own up in the hills, coming down to blow up railroad lines...