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...telephone-and turned back to find he was facing a gun. Their access secured, five other terrorists, one a woman, entered the building. Armed with submachine guns, they raced to the top floors and barricaded themselves, along with twelve hostages, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, 59, and his military attaché, Lieut. Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach...
...gesture to keep state employees from acting more than they have to, he has even stopped the practice of giving them free attaché cases (savings: $153,355 a year). Says Brown: "Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases...
...defense attachés go out to the battlefield as the eyes and ears of the embassy. They check casualties and assess the army's front-line reports. You don't read about this in the newspapers, but they see full colonels fighting like hell and getting wounded. The army has done a good job defending Phnom-Penh. But it needs more recruits. Students, who are so vocal, always telling the government what it's doing wrong, are still exempt from the draft. The government has to be more energetic, more dynamic to get people into...
...successful years. He denies that he is either "mobile" or "insecure." "Adjustable," he concedes with a smile. Fisher does not appear to enjoy finding words or situations that might typify him, and it is only with a sanctimonious and mocking knitting-of-the-brows that he vows to attach himself ultimately to a rich Harvard graduate and retire to a gate keeper's cottage. Even such sarcastic complacency does not sit well with Fisher and after a brief pause his large right hand is combing the air vigorously and he is erasing the pretty image of the gate-keeper...
...glance at the final statistics will go a long way in explaining the Crimson's easy win for Harvard employed its victory formula. This strategy basically amounts to having Lou Silver and Brian Banks lead the Crimson offensive attach...