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Even though there is evidence that Abu Nidal's headquarters is now in Libya and that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is picking up the estimated $14 million annual tab for Abu Nidal's organization, some Western intelligence agencies note that the Fatah Revolutionary Council retains an office in Damascus as well as a training camp in Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley...
...fired four members of his "Supercabinet," which ran the day-to-day operations of the government, and then abolished that body. Ministers in charge of the economy, education, foreign affairs and internal security were dismissed in the dramatic shake-up. Also fired was Haiti's tough police chief, Colonel Albert Pierre. Duvalier, who quickly appointed long-standing family retainers and technocrats to fill the vacant posts, offered no explanation for his actions. But he was clearly reacting to the unusual restiveness among Haiti's citizens, and to a threatened cutoff of much needed U.S. aid following bloody government clampdowns...
...Still, there have been moments worth the thousand-and-some pages of skulk and murk. Berlin Game should have been dedicated to divorced men everywhere, because in it Samson's supercilious, upper-class wife Fiona not only defects to the Soviets, but is revealed to be a KGB colonel. Samson and the dreaded Fiona skirmish at a distance in Mexico Set, the second book. At the end he appears to be ahead in this contest that seems a parody of postmarital discord, as he takes in hand Stinnes, a high-ranking Soviet defector...
...locking out the modern world, the country has also, in effect, locked in the legacy of its British past, and with it an air of sweet nostalgia. In the pine-scented hill station of Maymyo (named after one Colonel May), tidy rose gardens still grace half-timbered houses with names like All in All and Fernside, and horse-drawn victorias recall a gaslighted London. The town's central clock tolls with the exact chime of Big Ben, and the local rest house, formerly the chummery, or bachelor's quarters, of the Bombay-Burma Trading Co., still serves roast beef each...
...tent, into which he will often invite guests. "It is more natural here," he explained recently before proudly proclaiming that Libya was pretty close to being a Utopia. Surrounded by modern-day Bedouin creature comforts, including three telephones, five electric heaters, a TV set and a video recorder, the colonel seemed more than a little cut off from the realities beyond the barracks gates...