Word: pasts
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Score yet another triumph for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's very own Casanova of cocaine. Over the past 1 1/2 years, the handsome 34-year- old Cuban emigre has used a turn-'em-on and turn-'em-in technique to entice some 18 Florida and New Jersey women into setting up drug deals that led to their arrest. Instead of targeting street-level dealers and wholesale drug salesmen, Portell promised love and occasionally marriage if the women, most with no prior criminal record, would only set up a cocaine buy. When the deals went down, DEA agents were...
...linkage. In the conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis, relations cannot be described in terms of isolation or non- isolation. Syria could have opened the door to discussions with Israel, and Israel would have welcomed that. Egypt extended its hand in the past, but when Anwar Sadat visited Jerusalem, it did not affect our policy toward Israel. No other separate action will have that effect...
...First, we do not know their location. Second, we don't know who the kidnapers are. Any miscalculation in approaching this matter may result in the death of hostages rather than in saving their lives. In the past, a number of our soldiers were killed in attempts to find the hostages, but despite that we could not find them. A number of hostages have been released with our help, but we could not help all of them. We hope in the future our efforts will help all of them as it has helped those in the past...
Among other hard-boiled writers, the most impressive effort of the past year comes from Michael Allegretto. His Blood Stone (Scribner's; 261 pages; $16.95) is a superb example of the "cold crime" subgenre. A seedy private eye, approached by an even seedier pal, starts looking for the proceeds of a famous jewel robbery out West a couple of decades after the theft. His allies and enemies in an ever shifting set of alliances include an aging femme fatale, a spunky tomboy and her ex-con grandfather, a trio of murderous Indians, a small-town newspaper editor and a crooked...
...least, without the kind of editing that amounts to severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters and sculptors ruled the European roost, setting the standards of achievement by which Western culture judged itself. By the 19th century this primacy was lost, and throughout the modernist era Italy...