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...Flow, traditional wartime port of the British navy. Whenever the Norwegians headed for land in their squat, diesel-powered skiff, crewmen from the Rainbow Warrior in inflatable boats powered by 50-h.p. outboards began darting across their path. Orcadian volunteers pitched tents on the breeding-ground islands, ready to frighten the seals into the water at the approach of the hunters...
...only supported by radical Iraq and Libya but also is suspected by Western intelligence sources of receiving encouragement from the Soviet Union as well. Muslim leaders object not only to Khomeini's flirtation with the left but to the fact that his adherents in Iran use gangland tactics to frighten moderates...
...Liberal Hubert Humphrey. So it was not surprising that when Carter had had enough of Arthur Burns' professorial nagging, a search team headed by Vice President Walter Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that dumping the conservative Burns might frighten bankers and industrialists who already mistrusted the President's economic judgment, was looking for a progressive corporate chief?preferably a Democrat?whom Burns' admirers in "business could hail as one of their...
...teachings, according to Report, "have caused suicides, bankruptcies and hundreds of premature deaths. They have broken up thousands of happy marriages." Chess Genius and sometime Disciple Bobby Fischer was quoted as saying that Herbert "is simply a madman who would love to rule the world. He continuously tries to frighten and panic you about the supposed imminent end of the world-so that you will empty your bank account before...
Bundy concluded that though the subject of nuclear arms is not "trivial," it should not be unduly exaggerated to frighten people. Bundy stressed the necessity of changing public perception of the danger of nuclear proliferation