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...millionaire ex-spook escaped arrest, living in a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya, on the proceeds from his lucrative business. In his dealings he enlisted help from former agents, as well as from firms he had used as covers in his CIA days. Last June federal agents sprung a brilliant, elaborate trap covering three continents and lured the elusive Wilson back to New York City, where he was then seized. His partner, former Agent Frank Terpil, is still at large...
...oppose him." Was he describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have sprung from the soil and descended from the sky simultaneously. He must be both the struggle and the oppression...
Within the past two to three years, more than a dozen conservative publications have sprung up on major American campuses, including Stanford and the prestigious Claremont Colleges in California; Northwestern and the University of Chicago in the Midwest; Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth in the Ivy League. The new generation of editors sounds just as embattled and indignant as its liberal forebears who condemned the war in Viet Nam. Michael George, 21, editor in chief of Northwestern's Review (circ. 6,000), sounds the clarion call of revolt against the Establishment: "Liberals are the ruling class...
...trouble is that great enmities often flourish between equally great people, and no matter how harsh or deep the animosity, a good enemy will often become first recognizable, then familiar and eventually even likable. "My only love sprung from my only hate!" said Juliet, thus crumbling in an exclamation what her forebears took decades to develop. When the American Civil War was over, Walt Whitman lamented: "My enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead." With enemies like that, who needs friends! This is the danger of applying conscience to what ought to be conducted by naked reflex...
Leaders of the campus martial arts movement, which now claims about 150 devotees, trace its origins to the Kung Fu Club, a 13-year veteran at Harvard. Most of the other organizations have sprung up in the past five years...