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...Marilyn Quayle, furious because George dumped Dan in '92, is over in Libya conspiring with Gaddafi. Gorby gave the U.S.S.R. his best shot, but it didn't work, so he defected, took a publishing job in Manhattan, and is dating Susan Sarandon. Noriega beat his drug rap, as we all knew he would, and is back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became...
...about to try him on charges of embezzling $900,000, he fled to the U.S. He was arrested near Boston and held for extradition but escaped from jail and found his way back to Africa. In recent years he has lived in Burkina Faso and has visited Libya, where he and his original group of about 15 rebels received military training...
Soviet newspapers and magazines are publishing details about life in the U.S.S.R. that once would have crowned a CIA officer's career. Czechoslovakia's President, Vaclav Havel, discloses how much Semtex, a lethal plastic explosive, Prague has sold to Libya over the years (1,000 tons), while East Germany disbands its dreaded secret police. Soviet and other East bloc officials are still trying to sponge up information from the West, but they have widened their scope and deepened their activities; as Moscow tries to pump up perestroika with the technology and expertise of the West, its agents are busier than...
...bloc, some agents who do not make the grade are hunting for espionage jobs in the West. Most are turned away. "If the KGB did not want them, why should we?" says a senior British diplomat. Many agents end up working in Western countries for Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya. "It makes sense," says Malcolm Mackintosh, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They are less conspicuous in the West than Arabs are." The cold war may be over, but for spies the basic method remains the same: the art of survival is founded on the practice...
...free in Beirut and safely returned to Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand expressed his "personal thanks" to Gaddafi, and French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas effusively praised the Libyan leader for his "noble and humanitarian gesture." But suspicious Frenchmen and other Europeans noted that last January France returned to Libya three Mirage jet fighters that had been grounded in France since 1986, when the European Community imposed an arms embargo against Libya. Many denounced the release as part of an arms-for-hostages deal...