Word: handbagged
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Trying to show that Patty had not lived in constant fear of the Harrises, as she claimed, Browning put on the stand Ronald Furgerson, an FBI cryptology expert, who testified about a communications system used by the S.L.A. that was found in her handbag on the day of her arrest. The data, written in code on a card, gave the numbers of public telephones in the San Francisco area. A similar card was found on William Harris when he was arrested. Browning argued that the Harrises would never have given Patty such secrets unless they trusted her. The code...
...hours by the Redgraves and two other members of the W.R.P.'s central committee, who accused her of being a spy for the Special Branch (Britain's FBI). Corin added that she was "bourgeois, middle class and arrogant" besides. Gorst recalled that they made her empty her handbag and TV Producer Roy Battersby seemed particularly interested in her eyebrow pencil: "He kept peering down it as if he expected to discover a hidden microphone...
...would put us out of business immediately and give rise to grave charges of criminal misuse of the mail by Government agencies." Similarly the commission learned that during one of the San Francisco operations, CIA representatives abstracted and "concealed selected pieces of mail in an equipment case or a handbag," apparently without the knowledge of a postal official who was present. Later CIA officials analyzed the contents of the purloined letters, resealed the envelopes and surreptitiously returned them to the post office...
...first time all day we began to get information. "The helos," we were told, "are on the way." Word was passed down the line: one suitcase and one handbag per evacuee. Just as our group of 50 prepared to leave, that rule was changed to make way for more passengers: the Marine at the door shouted, "No baggage!" Suitcases and bags were ripped open as evacuees fished for their passports, papers and other valuables. I said goodbye to my faithful Olivetti, grabbed my tape recorder and camera and got ready to run like hell. The door opened. Outside I could...
...assassins screeched to a halt outside the three-story apartment building where Ambassador Timor lives with his wife and two children. One Arab fired a burst of his submachine gun at a Cypriot policeman on guard outside the building, seriously wounding him in the chest. Another planted a large handbag filled with dynamite at the main entrance. The Arabs were apparently unaware of two things: that there was another entrance closer to Timor's apartment, and that Timor had already left, five minutes earlier, to walk to the Israeli embassy half a mile away...