Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some time, American, Israeli and Italian intelligence agencies had been convinced that Abdallah was a leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary ^ Factions (known as F.A.R.L.), a group that since 1981 had made eight attacks on Americans or Israelis in Europe. The agencies further contended that he was a mastermind of international terror who had arranged the killings of Assistant U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris in 1982 and tried to murder U.S. Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg...
...joining ten other hearty mates and smashing over the sea in multimillion-dollar pursuit of an ugly, and near worthless, silver jug. Yachtsmen often complain that ocean racing is like standing under an ice-cold shower tearing up thousand-dollar bills. Until recently, Dennis Conner, 44, skipper and mastermind of the smoke-blue Stars & Stripes, might have agreed...
...Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines, North led the hunt for those responsible. The chief suspect, however, managed to escape. When terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt last year, North arranged the midair interception of an EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver North is the prototype...
Tommy Walker, the mastermind behind Harvard's 350th stadium show, the Liberty Weekend celebrations and the 1984 Summer Olympic ceremonies, died last Monday while undergoing open-heart surgery in Birmingham...
...patrol car, dressed himself and three mannequins in Red Army uniforms, and coolly drove through a Berlin Wall checkpoint to West Berlin. Wolfgang Quasner, 45, a West Berliner who claims to have helped more than 1,000 East European refugees in the past 20 years, identified himself as the mastermind. % Quasner said he and confederates photographed Soviet army patrols and then had uniforms made. They smuggled the mannequins and attire to Braun in East Berlin. Said Quasner: "You could never risk doing such a thing again. The East German guards will be wearing their eyes out watching for Soviet dummies...