Word: defector
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...assassination of Rehavam Zeevi couldn't have come at a worse moment - for Ariel Sharon, for Yasser Arafat, and for President George Bush. The radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Wednesday it had killed the right-wing defector from Ariel Sharon's cabinet to avenge the assassination of its own leader by Israel earlier this year. But the timing revealed a deeper agenda...
...walked out. But Roberts knew what it meant. He found majority leader Trent Lott and warned him that "it's pretty doggone serious." Lott had been getting similar reports and sounded the alarm to the White House and the Senate's G.O.P. leadership. But he was too late. The defector had already slipped past the gate...
...followed all the rules of a classic CIA operation. Democrats had targeted Jeffords as a possible party switcher practically from the day he came to Congress 26 years ago. Daschle, a former Air Force intelligence officer, knew that spymasters don't have a chance of bagging a high-value defector unless he is eager to defect. Even then, he has to be slowly and carefully cultivated. By last month, Jeffords seemed ready to come over. His disenchantment with the Republican Party had been building for months...
...John Breaux, head Democratic defector and co-sponsor with Tennessee Republican Bill Frist of the non-severability amendment, argued that McCain-Feingold's three main components - the soft-money ban, the raising of hard-money limits, and Snowe-Jeffords - all went together. Fellow defector Robert Torricelli concurred: Without any one of the three, the system goes out of whack...
...show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third row and advertising his own boutique which sells ?distillations? of his timeless couture collections...