Word: marcoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MARCO POLO, IF YOU CAN by William F. Buckley Jr. Doubleday; 233 pages...
Oakes, like the author, is a remarkably versatile fellow. In Marco Polo, If You Can, he quotes Yeats, works for the CIA and pilots a U2. But he is not a routine spy in the sky. Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper...
Nonetheless, antimissile sentiment began to emerge when the government, led by Republican Prime Minister Spadolini, announced publicly that Italy's contingent of 112 cruise missiles would be based outside the small southern Sicily town of Comiso. Since then, says Marco Fumagalli, 28, a leader of the Communist Youth Federation, the missiles have no longer been a "hypothetical possibility...
...Marco J. De Marco Denver...
...doctrinaire in his pronouncements. At the beginning and the end of a 90-minute interview, the first Kar mal has had with an American journalist, the President and party leader kissed Talbott on both cheeks in the traditional Afghan greeting, urging him to "come back some time and hunt Marco Polo sheep in our beautiful mountains." Karmal spoke mostly in English, which he said he learned in King Zahir's prisons during the 1950s, and proudly recited the opening lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, explaining that he ad mired Americans as people with "a great revolutionary...