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After all this winding, the plot should tick toward the hour of denouement. Instead, The Villa Golitsyn keeps exploding. Its cloak-and-dagger trappings mask a quest that is much more serious and dangerous than the entrapment of a possible spy. Before his mission is completed, Milson is forced to test his own flexible, contemporary morals in a series of severe challenges. He becomes, however unwillingly, a student of Christian theology and then its potential victim. Near the end, he must save either himself or his conscience...
Preferring to avoid another cloak-and-dagger uproar, the Administration appears to be listening to the congressional complaints. "Some changes will be made to meet their objections," an Administration official acknowledges...
...characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...
...prisoners buy weapons from each other; a gun with ammunition can be had for $500, a 10-in. dagger for $10, a 14-in. bowie knife for $20. The arms are not acquired primarily to attack guards, but to protect the prisoners from one another. Notes one inmate: "In here, not having a knife is a death sentence...
...Vietnamese-backed regime in Cambodia. Soviet planners, poring over their maps in search of targets of opportunity, should have to reckon with the likelihood that the MiGs they have supplied to some would-be invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations...