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Instead of a pension, however, Samson now gets a whole new Deighton trilogy, beginning with Spy Hook. Line and Sinker are the titles of the projected other novels, suggesting an activity more passive and a lot murkier than tennis. In this new work, Deighton's temptingly baited plot lines run dark and deep. The first half offers more nibbles than bites as Samson discovers just how little his bosses want him to know about their intelligence operations...
...academic freedom issues appear clear-cut, the deeper questions of how a professor should handle student complaints and how he should approach a potentially volatile topic are much murkier. Several of the professors interviewed say they must develop their own personal style in presenting controversial historical issues...
...those liberated few who thought they were in the prime of life, the picture is murkier. Once, Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner considered it a two-sided delight to lure away an American League East pitcher like Boston's Luis Tiant. Suddenly he has no interest in Detroit's Jack Morris, the decade's winningest pitcher. Montreal Outfielder Tim Raines, the National League batting champion (.334), must wonder whether he has bad breath. So frustrated was Teammate Andre Dawson, he signed a blank contract with the Cubs and is now working for $350,000 less than the Expos offered. World Series...
...splinter of the Palestine Liberation Front who were being interrogated last week in a maximum-security prison in Spoleto about their role in the Achille Lauro hijacking. Nor could Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the man U.S. authorities were pursuing with grim determination from Italy to Yugoslavia to the murkier reaches of the Middle East, be described as a major figure of the international terror network. But Washington had turned Abbas, the P.L.F. leader who it believes helped plan the hijackers' mission, into the personification, at least for the moment, of a contest that CIA Director William Casey describes...
...produced some relatively good news. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra forces battling...