Word: daggerisms
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...timing of the announcement was odd, considering that Mikhail Gorbachev is in the midst of numerous crises, including growing separatism in Lithuania and untamed ethnic violence in Azerbaijan. But cloak-and-dagger experts in the West believe Moscow may have publicized the spy's downfall to warn foreign espionage agencies not to take advantage of the tumultuous times in the Soviet Union. "The Top Hat revelation," said a senior British intelligence officer, "would appear to be a very sophisticated maneuver...
...past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into dagger handles or ground into folk medicines. Conservationists hope that if African governments lose the battle to protect their rhinos, a stockpile of rhinos in America may someday be used to repopulate African game parks...
Faced with such tactics and a surge in air travel, drug-enforcement agencies have beefed up their cloak-and-dagger operations. They have sent out "rovers," undercover agents dressed in anything from blazing Bermuda shorts to sleazy T shirts, to hang around airports. They have also trained friendly-looking dogs, like cairn terriers and cocker spaniels, to sniff out suspects by amiably sitting down beside them. In fact, it was a narcotics- sniffing dog that helped clip Andrew Sokolow's wings after he was detained - in Honolulu. The canine cop, Donker, found the drug courier's stash hidden...
...medical facilities in rebel territory were destroyed by Soviet bombs, and medical care was administered under the most primitive conditions. Amputations, says Muller, were "unimaginable. We had only a small amount of a narcotic, Trapanal. The saw came from the nearest work shed, and the amputation knife was a dagger from one of the rebels...
Intruders enter dormitories with ease, immediately behind students. The administration knows this, which is why they urge vigilance and caution. Granted, if a soiled vagrant, thoroughly soused and clenching a dripping dagger, sputtered, "Hold that door, will you?" some might simply prop the door open for an additional second or two without looking. To these disembodied few, vigilance and caution should of course be advised...