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Kissinger last week maintained his sense of humor. While briefing congressional Republican leaders on foreign aid, he cracked, "I've been so busy figuring out what jobs I have left that I haven't had time to study this." Showing a visitor a dagger, a gift from the government of Abu Dhabi, Kissinger said with mocking menace, "You see what happens when you turn your back?" Informed by White House Barber Milton Pitts that Jerry Ford was next on his schedule, Kissinger responded, "Tell the President that the only place...
...colleague. "But he immediately started growing, and he never stopped. He was a first-rate Congressman." In 1965 Rumsfeld helped lead the "young Turks" who deposed Indiana's Charles Halleck as House Minority Leader. In his place they installed Ford. Says a Democratic Congressman hyperbolically: "Rumsfeld held the dagger that Ford plunged into Halleck's back...
Whatever is later substantiated about Marks' cope-and-dagger stories, TIME'S sources report that the CIA as a matter of policy only rarely tries to make any contact in the field with U.S. missionaries. Over the years, as it did with certain other travelers, the agency interviewed a number of returning missionaries about conditions in the countries they had left. Several Protestant and Catholic mission boards are now discussing whether to direct their people to have no contact at all with the CIA -a policy that the pacifist Church of the Brethren established last October...
Effective too is Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...
...Rabin and his government doubted all along that Egypt was economically or militarily ready for another war. The Israelis were less angered by Egypt's threat than by some of the hostile language emanating from Cairo. Sadat referred to Israel as an "imperial creation" and as "a dagger in Egypt's side." Visibly annoyed, Premier Rabin charged that Sadat was not serious about peace, and that there could be no agreement unless and until the Egyptians agree to face-to-face talks. This is still unacceptable to Cairo, and the Israelis know it all too well. But whether...