Word: ros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together again after Israeli intelligence learns that Egypt is building a nuclear reactor in the western desert. The only solution, as the Israelis see it, is to obtain enough uranium to make their own bombs. The assignment is handed to Dickstein, whose cover is subsequently blown by Hassan. Enter Ros tov and his Muscovites, bent on thwarting Israel's campaign. Enter also the fedayeen, who aim to capture the stolen uranium and trumpet Israel's perfidy to the world. Dickstein is also dogged by his own mistrustful Mossad; his most useful ally turns out to be Wartime Buddy...
...computer tapes disclosed that Albrecht had been involved in far-left political activities since 1973. She had eve once been caught carrying electric cable -of a kind used with explosives-acros the German-Dutch border. The red ros bouquet, moreover, has served as a racical trademark; three years ago, a Wes Berlin judge was greeted at his doorstep by a girl carrying similar flowers. Moments later, he was shot dead...
...cost at least 115 lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army, 150 guerrillas-many of them boys and girls in their late teens-attacked the arsenal as most of its 40 troops were sitting down to dinner. Stiff resistance...
...night he sips at a glass of Mateus rosé, a Portuguese substitute for red Dubonnet, which is suspected of a higher calorie count. But beyond that, he looks and in some ways acts as well as ever, maybe a little better. His hair is bleached, his skin tanned from weekend sun on his Pocantico Hills golf course with his two sons and Club Pro Chi Chi Rodriguez. A medical lab, after studying his charts and X rays, reported: "This man is 40 years...
...last scene in Røros never got on film. She arrived 90 minutes late to a farewell party given by Losey for about 250 residents of the town. After she sat down at one of the tables, an angry member of the film crew scolded her for her behavior. "I'm a cardholder in the British Communist Party," he concluded somewhat irrelevantly, then added, "and I think you stink." Jane instantly burst into tears and left the party. Nobody heard a door slam...