Word: doublecrosses
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...Traffic Light. One day last week, as Tito's chauffeur-driven limousine halted for a traffic light in Panama City, Jimènez leaped from a nearby car, crying, "I won't let you doublecross me!" Jimènez then pumped four bullets into Arias' neck, right shoulder and right side...
From Foreign Minister Galileo Solis on down, Panamanians accused the U.S. of bad faith. "Yankee doublecross," snarled a Communist student leader. "The U.S. has never in the history of our treaty relations completely fulfilled its obligations, and those that have been fulfilled have been done tardily and grudgingly," muttered an angry Panamanian official...
...stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...
Where did that idea and order originate, and why was the dirtiest doublecross in the whole history of civilization so censored? It seems to me that the answer to these questions is an urgently important part of the reporting of the event, otherwise so capably handled...
...nation given up the cold war initiative seized so recently? Was a Communist doublecross in the making? Washington "guidance" veered between optimism and pessimism, but the picture that emerged was one that hardly indicated a quick settlement on terms that the U.S. could accept...