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Some of the Watergate myths have already been dispelled. For example, no amount of invective or evasion from Ron Ziegler could continue to sustain the claim that Watergate was a "caper" pulled off by seven crazies out on tout who just happened to be employees of the CREEP. That myth is now as "inoperative" as Mr. Ziegler. Yet most of the Watergate mythology remains and much of it is widely believed...
...little ditty is now being sung in Catholic pubs all over Northern Ireland. It is also burning the ears of Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, as well it might. Last week the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army pulled a canny caper in downtown Dublin that made a mockery of Cosgrave's get-tough policy on the I.R.A...
Goldberg's name surfaced first. She is a freelancer on the fringes of Washington journalism, and her participation in the caper was dismissed as a bad joke. But Freidin, 56, though never in the top stratum of his trade, is clearly in a different league from Goldberg. He marched into Prague with Patton and later served as foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He is also a Democrat. Why did he become involved in so tawdry an episode...
...minisub caper remains his favorite. According to Lenzlinger, he rented a vacation retreat at Rust, on the Neusiedlersee's Austrian bank, and hid the sub in a boathouse. Under cover of twilight, the sub picked up, one by one, eight refugees assembled near Sopron, Hungary. "The only problem was Hungarian dog patrols," Lenzlinger recounted. "But the police dogs, all running loose, were male German shepherds. So on one trip we released a dachshund bitch in heat. The police dogs vanished and we took in the refugees. We even retrieved the poor dachshund with a supersonic whistle...
This is fine with Mason, since he does not intend to become a newscaster or director but a detective when he grows up. Recently, during the shooting of an Underwood commercial, Mason showed his insight into the criminal mind in the great Cookie Caper. Consigned by his mother to a low-calorie diet, he conspired with Producer Dole to procure some cookies baked in the studio kitchen. Drawing a diagram of the studio, Mason plotted a path to the refrigerator. Between takes, while Dole distracted his mother, Mason sneaked along the prearranged route and snatched the cookies. The plan went...