Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tantalizingly ambiguous "I believed" were enough to close the books on the CIA director's involvement in the Iran-contra affair. Though Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified in July that Casey had embraced the diversion as the "ultimate covert operation" and many suspect he was the mastermind behind it, Casey had never publicly admitted knowledge of the operation...
Others in Higgins' liberally pleated plot are not so fastidious about rules and regulations. Tibbetts' co-defendants get long prison sentences, but the mastermind is found innocent by reason of insanity. A few years in a state hospital and he is once again stirring up trouble and profits as an arms dealer hiding in Morocco. By this time his former lover is the mistress of his former prosecutor...
...trial for selling U.S. secrets to Israel, officials in Jerusalem never wavered from what the U.S. considered an incredible story. The spy ring that included Jonathan and Anne Pollard had been a "rogue operation," the Israelis insisted, run without the knowledge of top government officials. The ring's mastermind, Rafi Eitan, who later became head of Israel's largest state-owned company, had never publicly contradicted the official line...
...turned the management over to Ken Aretsky and Anne Rosenzweig, the team behind Arcadia, a popular East Side boutique-restaurant celebrated for its new American cooking. Even more frightening to those accustomed to "21's" innocuous but soothing nursery dishes was the news that Rosenzweig, who would mastermind the kitchen, had chosen as her lieutenant Alain Sailhac, one of the best French chefs in the country, who had distinguished himself at Le Cirque. What was right for Arcadia and fancy French restaurants would not be right for "21," doubters said, fearing nothing so much as an invasion of foodies...
...wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than when he treated them for the normal run of human miseries? A mastermind of the sodium conspiracy taunts him, "You can't give me one good reason why what I am doing is wrong...