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...nationwide radio and television address, delivered partly in folksy native Creole, Council President Lieut. General Henri Namphy acknowledged that there was widespread discontent. Said he: "If you think it is grave now, I tell you it could be a lot graver if people don't return to work and lift the country out of the impasse it is in." Three days later Justice Minister Francois Latortue announced that an unnamed Swiss bank had agreed to freeze a $367 million account belonging to the Duvaliers. The Haitian government hopes to recover the money, which is part of the fortune that Baby...
Although the airline increased its own security precautions, it has not attempted to publicize these efforts. "We don't want to emphasize the problem," said TWA spokesman Bill Brown. He said that although the company is in no grave financial danger, it is adding flights to Alaska and Hawaii to its route schedule...
...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...
...Washington there was never any real doubt. The question, rather, was whether the Administration was ready to take the risks of ordering a hard, unilateral strike. Those risks are both obvious and grave. Some U.S. pilots and other service members might be killed carrying out bombing runs of the scale being contemplated. Even severe military damage might not cow Gaddafi into calling off or slowing down terrorist attacks. On the contrary, he might intensify them, as he seems to have done after the Gulf of Sidra battle. Might Gaddafi carry out terrorist attacks inside the U.S., as he has often...
...years Bhutto remained in the country following her father's execution, Zia responded to her challenges by simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined to prove him right...