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Since then, however, the government in Pretoria has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes calls "cloak and dagger means...
...Having spoken to Indonesians on this 'sensitive' subject. I now believe that the Indonesian army would have invaded Timor no matter what we or anyone else said about it, even if each Indonesian soldier had at his disposal no weapon other than his sacred dagger, the 'kris.'" (Atlantic Monthly, June...
...that the Democrats envision, and he plans a forceful public presentation of his case over the next few weeks. Said he on Friday: "The so-called Jones proposal is a declaration of war against the common-sense principles that are now rebuilding America. This partisan Democratic budget is a dagger aimed straight at the heart of America's rebuilding program." Although some uneasy accommodation is eventually possible, the stage now seems set for months of partisan crossfire as a prelude to the 1984 election...
...noticed some old Indian petroglyphs, the technical name for the spirals, crosses, lizards, birds and other rock carvings found throughout the Southwest. Anthropologists have tended to view them as little more than ancient graffiti, but the Prestons saw a message. As sunlight filtered between two large rocks, it formed dagger-like beams that swept tantalizingly across the petroglyphs. At once the Prestons suspected that the carvings might be a little solar observatory...
...sequence pulsates with a natural suspense not found in many film thrillers. The audience doesn't expect to see the killer burst through the door, as might happen in a more contrived film, but Rice's personal tension and psychological turbulence are far more riveting than such cloak-and-dagger suspense...