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...peacekeeping force were leaving Grenada, accompanied by Jeeps, weapons and their mascot, an island mutt named Butch. As a tropical rainstorm poured down on the Cuban-built Point Salines airport last week, the Royal Grenadian Police band bravely played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize presided over a truncated farewell ceremony from the back of his sedan...
...When agents hear of the $210,000 paperback-rights sale, they step up their asking prices for new manuscripts. And there is the danger that maybe the adrenaline won't flow quite as fast after our first big success." But fears like that belong to what San Francisco Novelist Herbert Gold has labeled the Age of Happy Problems. North Point has not only put itself on the map, it is helping to redefine the boundaries of U.S. publishing...
...mouthed Mengele family, Rolf Mengele's unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened his door just a crack, checked identifications, prohibited photographs and demanded that the handful of journalists he admitted give him receipts...
High-tech spying can seem relatively innocuous, at least to those predisposed not to ask too many questions. The Soviets regularly use European middlemen to buy high-tech gadgetry, which itself often seems harmless. "People rationalize," says Herbert Clough, a security consultant. "This little thing can't do any damage. It won't start World...
...still provide a vital framework for preserving the miracle. It is significant that the countries considered to be the greatest proliferation risks today are those that refuse to sign the treaty. That is proof, says Proliferation Expert Van Doren, that "most countries have some respect for their commitments." Says Herbert Kouts, chairman of the department of nuclear energy at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory: "I am convinced that without the treaty and the agency, a multitude of nations would have gone nuclear by now. The nonproliferation safeguards have been as effective as we hoped they would...