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Habib is a dedicated gourmand and a formidable poker player whose prowess at the card table is attributed by friends to his "uncanny knowledge of the people he plays with." One area in which Habib never gambles is his health. A survivor of bypass surgery and four heart attacks, he travels with a complete set of medical records, as well as medication and instructions on how it is to be administered. Although he has been unwilling to take on any full-time negotiating post because he thought the job would strain his physical abilities, Habib now finds himself involved...
...moochers and other pilot fish that hang on to fighters for dear life, Cooney has surrounded himself with old grade school playmates. If he grows officious, they bluntly tell him off and he laughs appreciatively. In the evening they would assemble in his room as in a clubhouse, play poker or watch a movie like Arthur and compare each other's impersonations of Sir John Gielgud. "Georgie here is a Cooney-come-lately," Cooney said, introducing George Munch. "Fourth grade. Now Hilly and I, we go back to second grade...
...poker game of new weapons programs that is always taking place alongside the negotiating table, the Soviets seem to be upping the ante. When Brezhnev last week reiterated, and slightly refined, the moratorium proposal, he also issued a vague warning of major new Soviet deployments directly threatening the continental U.S. To Western ears, it sounded as though Brezhnev was hinting that the U.S.S.R. might put Soviet missiles back on Cuba. That would violate the Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the 1962 crisis, and raise the specter of a new, potentially even more serious confrontation in the next couple...
...Ambassador to Nicaragua Turner Shelton consistently underplayed the opposition to President Anastasio Somoza in his reports home, thus blinding Washington to the signs of rising turmoil. Complains one U.S. specialist on Central American affairs: "Too often [our] ambassadors in the region felt it was their job to play poker with dictators...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings outlined his comprehensive alternative proposals in a letter to the President last week. Hollings later told a news conference: "He ought to understand that this is not a poker game with cards played close to the vest." The implied plea, that Reagan should end the uncertainty by showing all his cards now, ignores an even more worrisome possibility: all his cards may already be on the table...