Word: disaffectedness
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So begins an "inside" tale of how a CIA operation grew-and failed-from one who was intimately involved with it: John Stockwell, 40, an ex-Marine lieutenant who, before he quit the intelligence agency, not only was a CIA agent for twelve years but served as the "case officer...
Tough Laws, Tough Penalties. Despite the horrors terrorists have inflicted on Western Europe, the punishment imposed by courts has been surprisingly light. A Rand Corp. study covering the years 1968 to 1976 indicated that terrorists had an almost 80% chance of evading death or imprisonment for their crimes. Stanley Hoffmann...
Author Truscott, a disaffected former West Pointer who has written mainly in Manhattan's Village Voice, never flatly accuses Charles Allen of direct Mafia connections, but the implications are strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze...
The French malaise stems from the sharp division between the right and left, with neither faction assured of winning at the polls in March. Internal bickering on the left, and increasing public dissatisfaction with the economic programs of the ruling center-right coalition, has left the election's outcome in...
Saddled with a cumulative $16 million deficit, Giamatti will have to find ways to preserve Yale's excellence with a smaller exchequer. The new president's mandate, described somewhat bizarrely by William Bundy, presidential search committee head, is to redesign Yale into "the Cadillac Seville of education"?still a...