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...whose eyes show "a vulnerability that she took such pains to conceal . . ." Len Deighton is at it again, this time in the treacherous jungles of South America. Throughout MAMista (HarperCollins; 410 pages; $21.95), guerrillas attempt to seize control of Spanish Guiana, currently under the thumb of cryptofascist goons. The covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even so, the characters are shrewdly delineated, and the suspense continues until the final paragraph. Moral ambiguity...
Wrong on both counts. Robb won easily, and Wilder, ever flexible, used the new Senator's warm words of support in a campaign commercial. Meanwhile, the unsolicited tape showed up at Robb's office. Both federal and Virginia statutes prohibit covert intercepts as well as dissemination of their contents. Robb said he viewed the tape as "political gossip" rather than a legal land mine. In any event, he said, he had ordered the contents kept secret...
...also takes pride in having helped to establish a day-care center for employees' children, complete with jungle gyms and little CIA T shirts. He delighted in imagining what KGB analysts would conclude from their satellite photos of the facility: perhaps that the CIA was training midgets for some covert mission...
...Western democrats alike opened their countries' weapons coffers to Saddam. The bills for his spending spree, which built Iraq into the world's fourth-ranking military power, totaled more than $50 billion -- and that figure refers only to sales of conventional weapons. Some $15 billion more went toward the covert purchase of materials to develop chemical and biological weapons. Who armed Saddam? Says Anthony Cordesman, the leading U.S. expert on the Iraqi military: "The answer is everybody who has arms...
...Intelligence, which is investigating charges of agency involvement in the scandal, will soon produce some answers. Nobody has managed to nail down a charge, aired in a series of articles in the Houston Post, that the CIA used fraudulently obtained S&L money to fund some of its covert operations, including support for the now defunct Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House committee, which questioned...