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...would someday like to return to Moscow to lay flowers once again on the grave of his ancestor, about whom he is planning a book. But Daniloff insisted that, unlike Zakharov, he had come through the experience with his honor unsmudged. Yet was not the complex arrangement merely a fig leaf disguising the swap of Daniloff for a spy? "In my case," Daniloff responded, "the investigation into the charges against me was concluded. There was no trial, and I left as an ordinary free American citizen. In Zakharov's case, there was a trial, and he received a sentence...
...Fig--which is to France what Time and Newsweek are to America--photographed the students for its next issue. The pictures will accompany a feature on the College which will try to "bring to France the idea of Harvard," said reporter Veronique Grousset...
...death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always some fig leaf being used...
...well-to-do residents of the oceanside resort city of Santa Barbara, Calif., they are known as tree people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence...
Another reputation that may have been on the line in the Sergeant York decision was Weinberger's. "Killing the DIVAD was vital to saving any fig leaf of Weinberger's viability on the Hill," said one senior congressional aide. Legislators have been pressuring the Secretary to cut marginal Pentagon programs to help alleviate the federal deficit crisis. Said Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon, a Viet Nam War veteran and a longtime opponent of the Sergeant York: "My congratulations to Secretary Weinberger for a courageous decision. Too bad he waited so long...