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...Japanese used to say that Russian Vladivostok was "a dagger" pointed at their islands (the Siberian port lies 680 airline miles northwest of Tokyo). Since World War II's end, another Russian dagger has been poised, even closer to Japan: the island of Sakhalin (600 miles long, 75 miles wide), separated by only 26 miles of sea from the northernmost main Japanese island, Hokkaido. The lower half of Sakhalin once belonged to Japan; it was turned over to the Russians by one ot Yalta's secret deals...
...Robert Taft, whom the 12,000 partisans seemed to want for their presidential candidate in 1952. The man who electrified the crowd, however, was Senator Joe McCarthy, who vowed: "The Republican Party [has] a mandate to stand as a solid wall against the slow poison of Socialism and the dagger death of Communism." Lincoln got the homage, Taft got the respect, Joe McCarthy got the cheers...
Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...years ago an HYRC official accused his colleagues of running a "Cloak and Dagger Department" in a "Machiavellian atmosphere." He hinted that the C & D Dept. had considered such things as wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, smearing political candidates as Communists, and infiltrating the Liberal Union. Months later there were more charges of skulduggery; this time the GOPpers were alleged to have set up a string of "vassal clubs...