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...sits bolt upright, his hands folded neatly on the oak table in front of him. A dark suit and subdued tie reinforce the image of a stern military man, someone just as capable of offering an interrogator no more than name, rank and serial number as he is of impassively handing down a tribunal's verdict. Not even his eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, give anything away...
Other naughty symbols include an inverted cross, the anarchy symbol, a lightening bolt, a goat's head and the pentagram (inverted or right-side...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...
...week Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir nearly precipitated the crisis by announcing that he was firing Science and Technology Minister Ezer Weizman for holding secret talks with the P.L.O. Israeli policy forbids contact with the P.L.O., but Weizman has long advocated -- and indirectly practiced -- a dialogue. Labor threatened to bolt from the government, but eventually both sides compromised. Labor stayed in, although Weizman was excluded from the foreign-policy-making inner Cabinet...
...Western defense experts have long concentrated on two dangers, each a variant of a devastating episode that occurred about a half-century ago. One is an armored attack on Western Europe, a replay of Hitler's dash to the English Channel. The other is a nuclear Pearl Harbor, a bolt-from-the-blue attack by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles that would catch American weapons sleeping in their silos...