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After all this winding, the plot should tick toward the hour of denouement. Instead, The Villa Golitsyn keeps exploding. Its cloak-and-dagger trappings mask a quest that is much more serious and dangerous than the entrapment of a possible spy. Before his mission is completed, Milson is forced to test his own flexible, contemporary morals in a series of severe challenges. He becomes, however unwillingly, a student of Christian theology and then its potential victim. Near the end, he must save either himself or his conscience...
...just one day, Begin had rammed through a legislative measure that normally would have required at least three days of deliberation. He had opportunistically decided to use events in Poland, which preoccupied Washington, as a cloak for his action, in much the same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit...
After devoting 43,000 air miles to international summitry in seven countries, Mitterrand was belatedly paying attention to his national backyard. The interview, conducted by two accommodating TV executives, was an attempt to cast a cloak of presidential conciliation broad enough to reassure his impatient supporters and appease his angry detractors. But it confirmed that neither worsening economic news nor mounting political pressure would deter the new President from fulfilling the sweeping promises made during his campaign...
Preferring to avoid another cloak-and-dagger uproar, the Administration appears to be listening to the congressional complaints. "Some changes will be made to meet their objections," an Administration official acknowledges...
...silk for Lady Diana's wedding dress. Nestled in the rolling hills of Dorset, hard by Gooden's mansion, it is the only silk farm in England. Its worms, which dine on mulberry leaves, have provided silk for the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth and for the cloak Charles wore when he was invested as Prince of Wales. Started by Lady Hart Dyke in the 1930s with encouragement from Queen Mary, Lullingstone almost went under when its founder died in 1975. It was then that Gooden, who had been doing rather well with his butterfly company...