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WASHINGTON Post columnist Joseph Kraft charged Khomeini in a 1983 editorial with "the tactic of hiding destructive national policies in the cloak of religiosity"--thereby getting in the nifty extra dig that Khomeini is insincere...
...appeal to male conservatives, Kirkpatrick is in good standing with feminists. Says Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women: "Whether she is a Democrat or a Republican is not relevant to NOW. She is an ERA supporter and an asset wherever she goes and under whatever cloak she wears." Some G.O.P. conservatives are urging Kirkpatrick to make her move before 1988 by taking on moderate Republican Senator Charles Mathias in her home state of Maryland next year. If she won, they point out, she would not only gain a stepping-stone to the No. 2 spot...
Pickens moves with cloak-and-dagger stealth once he decides which firm to attack. Only a few Mesa insiders like Financial Vice President David Batchelder, 35, know the target. To keep its identity secret, Pickens gives it a code name (Gulf was "Barrel Cactus," for a plant in Pickens' office), which he uses while accumulating the company's stock. Money for the purchases is funneled in chunks of up to $50 million to Broker Alan Greenberg at the Wall Street firm of Bear, Stearns, and to other securities houses. Pickens transfers the huge sums from numbered bank accounts around...
During the trial, Stern editors have testified to Heidemann's cloak-and- dagger methods: how he described clandestine meetings with former Nazi officers, payoffs to East German generals, and encounters on highways near Berlin where satchels of cash were tossed from one moving car to another in exchange for the books. Piled high behind Judge HansUlrich Schroeder are mounds of dog-eared folders stuffed with exhibits and testimony. But nowhere in them are the answers to two key questions: why Stern's normally tough- minded managers fell for the forgery without taking precautions to authenticate their find, and whether Heidemann...
...according to City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, talk of aesthetic appeal is only a cloak for Harvard Square businessmen's fear of competition with national chains...