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...describing the Resolution's new assignment. Despite the fact that his wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their third child. Cook immediately volunteered. Since then, he has been gathering adventurous young crewmen like Astronomer James King, former Dartmouth Student John Ledyard, and Sailing Master William Bligh. Says Cook: "I embark on as fair a prospect as I can wish...
...acknowledges that the Iranian project and several others like it raise questions serious enough to prompt Harvard to embark upon an overall foreign policy re-evaluation during the next few years...
...Arabs hopeful-of heavy postelection pressure on Jerusalem to withdraw from occupied territories. Beset by unrest on the West Bank, a faltering economy and a bitterly divided leadership, Israel could find such pressure intolerable. The Rabin government could fall and be replaced by a more hawkish administration that may embark Israel on aggressive and unpredictable action...
...including the successful endeavors to stop sabotage during World War II; and the bureau's gratuitous entries into foreign espionage. In his most documented chapters Ungar details the outrageous violations made under the name of COINTELPRO, the counter intelligence program, to harass left-wing groups. Still, Ungar did not embark on this mammoth project with a master design. He wasn't out to prove that the FBI has been a source of evil throughout the Twentieth Century. And he didn't try to prove conspiracy theories in which Hoover-as-homosexual was out to take over the country...
Every Wednesday morning, Aeroflot flight 233 from Moscow touches down at Luxembourg International Airport. The 80-passenger Tupolev jet usually disgorges a curiously small contingent of passengers-rarely more than 15-from the Soviet capital. A few hours later, perhaps another ten or 15 passengers will embark for the flight back to Moscow, frequently taking with them enormous quantities of inspection-free diplomatic baggage. Their comings and goings excite little attention, except for the scrutiny of two Western intelligence agents assigned to watch each arriving and departing face. Reason: the Aeroflot flights to and from Luxembourg...