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...army or Shin Bet liked. The armed forces wanted four months; Sharon gave them one. By the time Israel ended the campaign in the final days of April, it had arrested Hamas' top and mid-level activists, according to Israeli intelligence, but hadn't worked down to the legmen who carry out surveillance on target locations and run errands for the bombmakers during the planning of operations. Of 90 activists in the Nablus Hamas cell known to Israeli intelligence, only the top 60 were arrested or killed. Mohana Taher was among the low-level Hamas men who remained at large...
...legmen for the individual Friends of organizations," says Club Secretary Robert Pickett, who has been affiliated with Harvard for 35 years in capacities which include coaching the wrestling and freshman football teams. The Varsity Club has taken on much more of an administrative than social role, he explains...
...course it is impossible to have a couple of $200-a-week legmen impersonated by million-dollar movie stars, their images blown up to gigantic proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein...
...Howard Hunt shows little reticence nowadays in talking about those whom he considers responsible for the Watergate raid. "I guess it's obvious now," says Hunt, "that the Watergate thing was planned by a small group of people-Mitchell, Magruder, maybe a few others. We were just legmen in that operation following decisions made by others, and yet we're the only ones who have suffered from...
...continuing conflict between the Nixon Administration and the press, Columnist Jack Anderson and his trio of legmen have employed the boldest and, in Government eyes, the most outrageous guerrilla tactics. Secret memos, classified documents, off-the-record exchanges-all have found their way into Anderson's hands and columns (TIME cover, April 3). Countering with some cloak-and-dagger work of its own, the FBI last week arrested one of Anderson's men while he was loading stolen documents into...