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British agent Bernard Samson proved himself a good candidate for early retirement in Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...
Israel's army has reached deep into its kit bag of tricks during the unavailing struggle to quell the eleven-month-old Palestinian revolt. Two of the most feared are called "Cherry" and "Samson," code names for clandestine military teams whose members, garbed in kaffiyehs and speaking Arabic, secretly stalk the leaders of the intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinians charge that the units are actually death squads that murder suspects without provocation. The army refuses to discuss its covert operations against the uprising but vehemently denies it fields hit teams. "Dirty tricks are part of the game...
Military sources insist such actions are fully justified and claim that Cherry (the West Bank unit) and Samson (the Gaza unit) have arrested dozens of leaders of the uprising. They contend that all their operations stay within the bounds of Israeli law. Palestinians, on the other hand, charge that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims...
...Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a whoosh like a paper bag popping -- a gaping hole blew open in the fuselage directly above the first- class compartment. "Everything was flying around -- books, papers, money," said Stanford Samson, a passenger seated nearby. "A stewardess was in the aisle being pulled toward the hole. Everybody who could grabbed her and held onto her." Farther back in the coach seats, Eric Becklin, 48, thought to himself that "my life was not in order, and I wasn't ready...
...lying in bed counting sheep when all of a sudden it hits me. I conceive a character like Samson, Hercules and all the strong men I heard tell of rolled into one. Only more...