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...inherently unstable situation like that was ideal for Iranian and Iraqi mischief making. Iran, which is said to support the P.U.K. clandestinely, has been sending small units into the area for months under the pretext that they were subduing Iranian Kurds. On Aug. 17, the P.U.K., with military hardware allegedly supplied by Iran, began a serious assault on the K.D.P. Iranian forces joined the action by shelling K.D.P. positions from Iranian bases...
...some point too the motive and the forces of motiveless malignity converge; it doesn't matter whether an explosion is touched off by a fanatic or a mischief maker--the cause is buried by the effect. A bomb is like the physical equivalent of an insinuation--an anonymous, handwritten note that says, "Just when you thought you were safe..." Terror now lurks in the shadows like a stranger in a dark ramp behind the parade of nations...
...every deed of mischief, Comnenus had a heart to resolve and a hand to execute." --EDWARD GIBBON...
Morris seldom speaks to reporters, but he gets into hot water all the time. He leaked White House polling data to Bob Dole's campaign last January in a botched attempt to lure Dole into making a budget deal. But despite such mischief making, Morris hasn't lost the President's ear. There are 20 good reasons for this--one for each point by which Clinton leads Dole in the polls...
...Vice President Gore and Clinton counselor Thomas F. ("Mack") McLarty are carefully overseeing the Games. Gore recently spent three hours in a bug-proof FBI vault questioning agents about their security plans. Almost 10,000 U.S. soldiers are slated to supplement workers in jobs where unscreened temps could make mischief, from bus drivers to cooks. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for some 110 Georgia state and local officials to attend a weekend course where they practiced how they would handle problems from mass heat stroke to terrorism. Another exercise this month will simulate a plane hijacking and a hostage...