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...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...
...SMERSH even had its secret code and pseudonyms: then-reigning Pope Pius X was "Lady Micheline," and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val, was "Miss Romey...
Behind this recent tale of international crime and punishment was the simple fact that the Geneva teller had just read a counterfeiting advisory put out by the International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol. The glamorous acronym invokes images of SMERSH-smashing undercover men from U.N.C.L.E. but the glamour is a myth. Interpol never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne...
Whether the U.S. would have been better or worse served if the Soviet army-or SMERSH-had elected to adopt the weapon is open to question. The U.S. Army tested the gun in December and has not yet made a report. However, an authoritative technical publication, the American Rifleman, reports that Gyrojet is wanting in several respects-including accuracy...
...Washington, which clings fondly to the notion that it is a semitropical Southern city, and has little truck with snowplows and such, 12 in. of squashy snow, on top of 7½ in. from the week before, immobilized the Government more effectively than SMERSH could have done. Most Government employees were given Monday off and allowed to come in late Tuesday. Congressional debate dropped to a somnolent whisper when only a ninth of the House and a third of the Senate battled through the drifts to Capitol Hill...