Word: mischiefism
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...offers in return assurances that have little to do with the Soviets' real fears -- political deterioration inside the bloc, not a military threat from outside. Moreover, the forces that stand ready to exploit the trouble are also internal, not external; they are domestic hard-liners, not CIA or Pentagon mischief-makers...
What the audience is left with, then, is a few moments of anachronistic mischief, significantly more moments of sparkling dialogue and well-timed comedy, and a lot of dead spots...
...publishers if Khomeini sought to follow through on his threat was difficult to gauge. Of the roughly 25,000 Iranians in Britain, it is believed there may be as many as 1,000 radical extremists, including students on short-term visas. Tehran-backed groups have a history of violent mischief in London, mostly bombings aimed at Iranian dissidents. Says Ian Geldard, head of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism: "In the Islamic world, a call from the Imam is a full command . . . The worst of it is that this threat could remain in effect for months...
Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know...
...gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets, or for the Soviets to menace Washington. Of course, there is also a chance that Moscow and Beijing, disengaged from rivalry with each other, might proceed to make mischief elsewhere...