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...other direction, Roger B. Porter, who served as President Bush's assistant for economic and domestic policy, will return to the school this semester as the IBM Professor of Business and Government after a four-year hiatus. And Porter will not likely be the lone Republican defector to the school...
...seems the Cubans have invented a new game -- call it "InFidelity": whoever successfully deserts to the U.S. in the most audacious manner wins. Only 10 days after a defector flew a small plane to Cuba and whisked his entire family to freedom, the pilot and passengers on an internal flight bound for a popular resort tied up their co-pilot, knocked out a security guard with chloroform and, 50 minutes later, were gleefully exchanging high-fives on the tarmac at Miami Airport. All but five of the 53 people aboard requested asylum...
Coming in from the cold got too hot for Edward Lee Howard, the CIA's only known cold-war defector to the KGB. After a short interlude in Stockholm, during which Swedish authorities considered whether he had spied against their government, Howard scurried back to Russia. "He's safe in Moscow," said Howard's lawyer. U.S. Department of Justice officials, frustrated because espionage is not included in the U.S.-Swedish extradition treaty, vowed in a statement "to bring Howard to trial no matter how long it may take...
When a polo pony from the royal compound in Jordan plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...
...Canadian who lives in suburban Baltimore, and had been dismissed as coach of the N.H.L.'s Pittsburgh Penguins before hooking up with the team from his father's homeland. The top-seeded Swedes have four former or current N.H.L. All-Stars. Rounding things out, there is a Czech defector on the German team and half a dozen Quebecois on the surprisingly successful French squad...