Word: trapping
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When Nicholas Daniloff was ensnared four weeks ago in a KGB trap, it was thought the tense game of pawns that ensued would prevent any progress on arms control or toward a Soviet-American summit. Instead, something quite different occurred. Movement on arms control increased, and so did hopes for a year-end meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow...
...William H. Rehnquist's fitness to be Chief Justice, the Arlington, Va., police disclosed that in at least one way Rehnquist is up to speed -- and then some. Two weeks ago police in Arlington clocked him doing 41 in a 30-m.p.h. zone known to locals as a radar trap. Rehnquist, 61, was charged with speeding, failing to have his car's registration in his possession, and failing to have his driver's license updated. He faces $82 in fines...
...Soviets countered, according to intelligence sources, that the U.S. broke the rules by setting its trap for a nondiplomat like Zakharov, and then by putting him in jail. Normally agents who are arrested are expelled or released to the Soviet Ambassador. "The Soviets don't like to have their spies put in jail," says former CIA Director Stansfield Turner. "Things won't get quiet until...
...room corrugated-tin cabin. Her face had been slashed in two by the blows of a machete. Her shocked acquaintances and colleagues suspected she had been murdered by the Rwandan poachers against whom she had waged war for more than a decade. She had burned their huts, cut their trap lines and paid government guards to bring suspected poachers to her for interrogation. Some of her acquaintances believed the poachers had long ago begun to retaliate by slaughtering her favorite creatures, concentrating on the particular gorillas she had been studying among the 29 groups in the surrounding national park...
...pursue and trap these sociable, intelligent cetaceans? The dolphins are merely a fisherman's convenience. A few feet beneath them swims the real object of the hunt: a huge school of yellowfin tuna, which for reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they...