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...culminated a cloak-and-data caper extraordinaire, the FBI's most ambitious sting since Operation Abscam netted seven Congressmen for taking bribes two years ago. Glenmar was an FBI front operation set up to deal with the problem of industrial espionage in the fast-track microelectronics industry. Winding up investigations that lasted eight months...
...current caper revives SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, which Bond supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies...
...caper may have been more humorous than tragic, but it does serve as an emblem of the University's willingness this year to scrap past promises or reconsider time-honored policies that reflected the best of Harvard. On two of this year's signal issues--the temporary decisions to end the University's absolute ban on investment in banks that loan to South Africa, and to cancel the Fogg Museum's proposed new wing. Harvard precipitously discarded earlier promises...
Bankers and brokers spent much of last week trying to nail down how Drysdale pulled off its caper. Though the nearly four-month-old company employed about 30 securities traders and operated with little more than $20 million in capital of its own, it had managed to put together a $6.5 billion portfolio of U.S. Government bonds, bills and notes. More than $4 billion of that was borrowed. Said a top Wall Street bond trader of the bewilderingly complex financial structure of the upstart firm's activities: "It was the most astonishingly leveraged operation that I have ever seen...
...denies any involvement in the Watergate cover-up or the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office--the two crimes for which he served 18 months in federal prison. He pins the former caper completely on Dean, and hints quite strongly that Nixon commissioned the later. Far from admitting any wrongdoing. Ehrlichman claims that Nixon though of him as the "conscience" of the Administration. The problem with that story is simple: he enlists no new evidence in his cause and supplements, his charges with no compelling arguments. He merely stakes his word against Dean's, the prosecutors...