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...ahead signal. Haig insisted to TIME through a spokesman last week that he never gave Sharon the encouragement implied. According to Haig, moreover, the former Defense Minister has assured him he never took his words as approval. Even if the Secretary of State did deliver the speech cited in Sniffer's book, it at best constituted not a green light but an amber one, full of the normal ambiguities of diplomatic discourse...
Scandal over "sniffer planes...
...sniffer-planes affair leaped into public attention last month with an article in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine. The Mitterrand government, under fire for its management of the limp French economy, suddenly found itself in a position to lambaste the previous administration, led by Valery Giscard d'Estaing. But even before Mitterrand could capitalize on the disclosure, Giscard went on national television to deny any wrongdoing. He implied that others, notably his Premier, Raymond Barre, were more directly involved. Barre, in response, insisted that the affair had to remain shrouded in secrecy "for defense reasons...
...when it went off, apparently detonated by remote control. Forty minutes earlier, a caller with an Irish accent had phoned the Samaritans, a voluntary organization, to announce: "Car bomb outside Harrods. Two bombs in Harrods." Scotland Yard was notified, and a team of police, including animal handlers and trained "sniffer" dogs, was dispatched to the store. At least five people died, and 91 were injured...
...which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...