Word: saber
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...spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage, and he is at least twice the man that 007 ever...
...Algerian State Publishing House. No Phantoms for Tel Aviv, Halt Plan Terror!, Rescue the Fedayeen Girl, Vengeance at Gaza and Hangmen Also Die are tailored for Arab readers. The fact that they are printed only in French, however, has restricted their audience in the Arab world. Even so, Saber has won himself a following of camp-conscious European devotees who affectionately refer to him as Achmed Bond...
Indeed, there are numerous similarities between SM-15 and the indefatigable James Bond. Both are equally skillful at planting explosives and pulverizing adversaries. Of course Saber, while he is shooting two South Africans in the head, heroically confesses that he feels "a certain repugnance" toward such necessary bloodshed. Where Bond's nemesis is the satanic spy network SMERSH, Saber's is Shin-Bet, the Israeli counterespionage agency, and especially dark-haired, black-eyed Lieut. Colonel Isaiah Shader. ("A true Semite, that...
...saber, Larry Cetrulo won all three of his matches, Rick Tolbert took two, and Ken Hetzler split two. Foilman Tom Keller continued to fence brilliantly and won two bouts, allowing his opponents only two touches. "Rutgers wasn't tough at all. But they did loosen us up for Princeton," Irvings said last night...
...match against Princeton this afternoon, the Crimson faces a team which has some weaknesses at the foil and saber, the Crimson's two strong weapons. The Tigers have won one game in the Ivies, defeating Cornell last week. The Harvard fencing team will be seeking its first Ivy League...