Word: saboteurs
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...THVN newscasts, which are unaccountably aired with tunes like Mrs. Robinson and Love Is Blue as background music. Actors, too, find scant opportunity to shine in THVN's ersatz soap operas and sitcoms, which are long on doctrine and all too short on drama. Typical plot: North Vietnamese saboteur infiltrates the South, discovers that life under the Saigon government is not as bad as Hanoi has made it out to be, defects...
...exact numbers involved, Fatah is the most prominent and the largest of them. To the Israelis, the raiders are terrorists and thugs, inept and indiscriminate in their missions. To the Arabs, they are freedom fighters in the best guerrilla tradition, skilled in the arts of the commando and the saboteur. The world knows them best as the fedayeen, meaning "men of sacrifice," a disparate group of clandestine plotters often at odds with one another, who play a large part in keeping the Middle East on the edge...
Khanh is capable of handing out both medicine and discipline. At his orders last week, a Viet Cong saboteur-a 20-year-old Saigon student caught carrying a hand grenade-was stood up before a sandbag parapet in Saigon's market square and shot...
...Galeries Lafayette, if not Dior. Once-dowdy Lotte Ulbricht, married to East Germany's lackluster President, could pass as a well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf Ali looked striking in silk, making it hard to believe that as a dedicated saboteur she once moved the British to put a price of 10,000 rupees on her head. "Our Congress is a manifestation of charming womanhood, motherly warmth, moral and physical beauty!" gushed La Pasionaria, quite a little off the mark...
...saboteur can reach the control officers. They descend into their green-walled capsule by elevator or steel ladder, are protected by steel doors 3 ft. thick. Atop the control center sits a squat building with three security guards. Around the building is an electronically guarded fence. "God help the man that tries to get in," says one project officer...