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Henke, however, is abducted before Shaver can get to him. Who has Henke, and Henke's true political allegiance, become matters of increasingly risky perplexity. A hit man (nicely played by Richard Romanus) shows up from Detroit and makes the first of many at tempts on Shaver's life. Before things settle down, the KGB, the CIA and the Mafia all get involved, and all, for their respective reasons, get sore at Shaver. Even his girl friend (Cristina Raines) grows testy. Shaver deals with all the vexations as best he can, with bluff and a little muscle, looking...
...World Court's decision have been greeted with responses ranging from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...
...hands of some of its citizens, Lord Palmerston, Britain's Prime Minister, sent the British navy to blockade Piraeus. British subjects the world over, Palmerston told the House of Commons at the time, could boast as proudly of their citizenship as St. Paul did when he said: "Civis Romanus...
...hooked on the Army's version of Ding-Dong School. Unwittingly, they are participants in one of the few radical advances in teaching the arts of war made since the days when Julius Caesar's centurions were bawling out greenhorns as they learned the goose-stepping passus Romanus. Replacing hoary drill instructors are cool specialists; no longer mechanical spiels learned by rote and replete with undigested, ill-pronounced jargon, lessons are couched in the G.I.s' everyday language; small items of equipment once invisible to troopers at the back of the class can now be magnified...
More blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee...