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Forsyth's skillful set-piece description of how to make a bomb and attach it to a Jaguar XK 1505 (using five rubber erasers and a broken hacksaw blade) is a model of worldly efficiency. But he is also capable of howlingly unintentional humor. After pages and pages recalling the ferocity of the SS, a Jewish survivor warns the young reporter: "Do be careful. These men can be dangerous...
...only the young militants who debased the old traditions. Anxious to bring the whole shabby episode to an end with as little fuss as possible, the Administration hastily collected $66,650 in "expense money" from various agencies, sent the wampum to the bureau in a black leather attaché case and had it passed out to the young demonstrators as they finally ended their siege. That was a very long way from 1792 when, as a token of respect, George Washington presented Red Jacket with a medal...
Specifically, Kennecott is trying either to seize legally all copper exports from El Teniente, once they reach foreign ports, or attach the payments that foreign customers make to Chile's state-owned copper company. The opening skirmish in this paper blockade was fought about a month ago, when the company got a Paris court to issue an injunction against payment by two French firms for a $1,400,000 shipment of copper headed from El Teniente to Le Havre aboard a West German freighter. Kennecott claimed that the copper is in effect stolen property...
Aranda, Chalandon's former press attaché, began preparing the latest revelation after Chalandon lost his job last July when Pompidou forced Chaban-Delmas to tender his resignation. Chalandon asked Aranda to go through his correspondence and sort it out. Aranda did, and made photocopies of documents he considered compromising to Gaullist bigwigs...
...coincidence that the worst of the decisions against U.S. athletes were made by European judges, especially those from Communist-bloc countries, which attach great political significance to Olympic performance and seem to regard their athletes as instruments of foreign policy. U.S. Wrestler Wayne Wells, a gold-medal winner, has his own notion: "It's the way they've been brought up. What's cheating to us is not cheating to them." The pivotal problem is that the judges are originally picked by member nations, leaving the Olympic Committee little choice but to rubber-stamp the nominations...