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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attendance at this Donovan dinner, the twelfth since 1962, is unusually large. The crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...chap in Cairo who designed a land mine that looked remarkably like a camel turd. He put it in the diplomatic pouch and sent it to London. I'm not sure they knew quite what to make of it." Thibaut de Saint Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went to the offshore island of Quemoy to recruit them for the Allied cause. On the island, he remembers, he found himself living "in 12th century splendor. The pirates had stolen some very fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Docks at Kompong Som have been destroyed. One particularly poignant obstacle to deliveries by ship was discovered by Oxfam officials. They found that dock workers at Kompong Som are so enfeebled by malnutrition that they cannot unload heavy shipments of food from deep-draught freighters. According to UNICEF Executive Director Henry Labouisse, Phnom-Penh officials have instructed the U.N. agency not to send anything that weighs more than 50 kilos (110 Ibs.) "because people are too weak to carry anything heavier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Because of the positive results of the picture I.D. cards. the University will definitely issue them next year. Stephen W. Homer, director of student receivables, said yesterday...

Author: By Robert J. Campbell, | Title: Bursar's Cards | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

PENNSYLVANIA at HARVARD BROWN at DARTMOUTH COLUMBIA at CORNELL YALE at PRINCETON LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE DAVID WILSON Harvard 20-7 Brown 21-14 Cornell 35-3 Yale 24-10 2-2 23-12. .657 MARK DIRECTOR Harvard 23-7 Brown 20-10 Cornell 44-10 Yale 33-17 3-1 21 14. .600 LAURA SCHANBERG Harvard 14-7 Brown 14-10 Cornell 24-12 Yale 30-14 2-2 20-15. .571 NELL SCOVELL Harvard 7-3.5 Brown 21-3 Cornell 14-log 3 Yale 28-TT Staff writer JOHN DONLEY '79 Sports editor emeritus Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sports Cube Predicts | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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