Word: booklets
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...April 1997 a fully detailed plan complete with maps, diagrams and operational data had been drafted and printed in the form of a half-inch-thick booklet with an orange cover; code name: Operation Amber Star. It called for a two-pronged raid involving several hundred soldiers in which helicopter-borne French troops would "neutralize" the 30-man guard around Karadzic, while an elite U.S. commando force would move in and seize the suspect. Depending on the circumstances, those roles could be reversed. But such a hazardous operation could not proceed without head-of-state approval...
...Whether Shayler has the skinny or not, the allegations come as a blow to British intelligence's attempt to lose its "license to kill" image. Only last week, MI5 -- the domestic spy service -- issued a booklet pointing out that while it holds 13,000 active files on British residents, it "does not kill people or arrange their assassination." Now it seems MI6, MI5's foreign-espionage counterpart, will be forced to bring out a similar glossy pamphlet denying everything. Mr. Bond will be most displeased...
...read in The Crimson this week that Harvard has been "wooing" its female students lately. I must say I hadn't noticed. Yes, I heard about the dedication of the women's gate on the 25th anniversary of permitting women to live in Harvard Yard. I saw the glossy booklet with pictures of smiling, "diverse" women (including, of course, the one tenured black female professor) against backgrounds of Harvard brick. I noticed the warm support of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 for the Undergraduate Council bill that would equalize men's and women's diplomas by removing...
Radcliffe currently receives no financialsupport from Harvard and reaps 28 percent of its$85.3 million budget from gifts and bequests,according to a Radcliffe informational booklet...
...Kuumba Singers, formed in 1970 as theHarvard-Radcliffe Gospel Choir, "was a product ofthe times, of the turbulent sixties and seventies,of the search and struggle for a collectiveAfrican American self," wrote Kenneth S. Ingraham'74 in the choir's 25-year anniversary booklet...