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...Cloak of Darkness, MacInnes...
Plenty of cloak, but no dagger
With the help of his intended victims, the Rumanian double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even...
George Bush has seen nothing in 18 months as Vice President to rival the beauty of the bluebonnets that cloak the Texas hills in June or the autumn colors in New England. These hot days he yearns for the surge of the Maine surf, and now and then he takes a picture of his Maine home out of the top left drawer of his desk and looks at the rocky promontory and the blue ocean. His proximity to power has not taken the poetry out of his life. Perhaps that is why he has become something of a legend...
...private, family-run corporation, Bechtel has maintained a cloak of secrecy rivaled only by modern-day monarchies. Still, some new insights about this prodigious builder are almost certain to emerge during Shultz's Senate confirmation hearings later this month. Most of the attention is expected to focus on Bechtel's longstanding ties to the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, which helped the company to land the job of construction manager on the Saudis' gargantuan Jubail development project (see following story...