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...elder Berezhkov charged that the State Department's demand to question Andrei privately, in an effort to establish firsthand whether he wanted to defect, was "an attempt to use our boy as a pawn in a new anti-Soviet gambit." Reagan Administration officials acknowledge privately that they were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits...
...great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were a pawn on a chessboard...
...crowds were thoroughly pro-Reagan at the next stop, Costa Rica, the most stably democratic and pro-U.S. country in Central America. The left wing charges that Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, in office just seven months, is Washington's pawn, seduced by U.S. aid ($70 million in 1982). Indeed the money is crucial just now: the country's economy is in a recessionary tail spin...
NICHOLAS LAWRENCE as Ed successfully reveals an abhorrence of women and permanent attachments. David Wingrove as Kemp movingly depicts a pawn in his family's sexual struggle. Constantly walking on and looking for suppositories, the father becomes an emblem for the absolute stagnancy of the character's lives, and nothing can relieve his discomfort or ours...
...motives played an important part in Khomeini's decision to send his forces into Iraq. The Ayatullah, who was exiled to Iraq's Holy City of An Najaf after several arrests for anti-Shah activities, has never forgiven Saddam Hussein for trying to use him as a pawn in Iraqi-Iranian relations. To placate the Shah during a short-lived period of rapprochement betweeen the two countries, Saddam Hussein placed Khomeini under virtual house arrest in 1975. Three years later, as the Shah came under increasing pressure from Islamic fundamentalists operating with Khomeini's backing, Saddam agreed...