Word: misleader
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...hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence in Egypt, the White House knew by Thursday morning that the hijackers still had not left the country...
Agca offered other testimony last week that probably unsettled some Communist capitals: Co-Defendant Zhelio Vassilev, a former Bulgarian military attache in Rome who is being tried in absentia, had worked out a plot to mislead investigators into thinking that Agca had acted alone in St. Peter's Square. When Agca was seized in the square, he was carrying a letter stating that the motive for shooting the Pope to protest U.S. and Soviet imperialism. "(Vassilev) suggested that I write (the letter) because in the event of capture it would be useful to give the impression of a lone killer...
...accident in the '60s and '70s, when alienation was in flower, that it often seemed to be "native" Americans who felt alienated, while aliens or the children of aliens upheld the native values. The immigrant's double vision results in a special, somewhat skewed perspective on America that can mislead but that can also find revelation in the things that to native Americans are obvious. Psychiatrist Robert Coles speaks of those "who straddle worlds and make of that very experience a new world...
...same one. To wit: incompetent French officer A is appointed via government connections to lead expedition across the Sahara to Point B. He is given C Francs and D assistants, collects E colonial troops in French Algeria, and, most importantly, F camels. Along the journey treacherous native guides mislead the party, and contacts with the mysterious Tuareg people increase. After G weeks of near-starvation, the raiders appear and massacre the expedition...
...expressed concern that students not think the College is trying to mislead them. He knows that it's hard raising money for the Quad, even though the College has just picked up $356 million in a capital drive, but he wants students to know that...