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...less than truthful about his role in national-security wiretapping (see following story). That was unfortunate, since the changes in the Middle East have been nothing short of astonishing since Kissinger went to work in the wake of the October war. Eight months ago, Egyptians regarded Nixon as the villain who was sending Phantom jets to the Israelis. Now Sadat has gone so far as to say that the impeachment of Nixon "would be a tragedy." A U.S. Navy task force has just completed a minesweeping operation to reopen the Suez Canal, closed since the 1967 war. Syria, still tied...
...villain of Magruder's piece is Colson, whom he calls "an evil genius." Despite his reputation as a grandmother-stomper, Colson comes across as almost pathetically small-time. When not waging interoffice battles against then Communications Director Herbert Klein, Colson seems to have been preoccupied with setting up something called Silent Majority, Inc., a proposed conservative research institute to counter the influence of the liberal Brookings Institution...
Opposing players, shaken by Tiriac's baleful glare, dubbed him Dracula. Tiriac began the season strongly with a lot of arguing and baiting at away matches but stopped when the fans booed him. No wrestling villain instincts resided in his lamblike breast. Instead, he became more the helpful doubles partner; he and Pat Bostrom won all their early mixed doubles and their wins seemed to be the triumph of good natured cooperation over querulous, fractious competition...
Amuzegar nonetheless clearly resented some of his neighbors. "Everybody considers Iran to be the villain in raising prices," he said. But "it is the Arabs" who are forcing up prices with their takeovers of foreign oil companies and buy-back arrangements. Last week, for example, Kuwait's government approved an agreement to acquire 60% of the British Petroleum-Gulf Oil Corp. joint venture in that nation, and Saudi Arabia plans to renegotiate its agreements with the Arabian American Oil Co. Iran, a Moslem but non-Arab country, which nationalized its oil industry years ago, "does not engage in that...
...happen," Karefa-Smart says. "It will not be easy for the doctor, but you have to think of how many lives can be saved with the money that might buy one kidney dialysis machine. You have to set priorities, think of the community. Sometimes you will appear a villain...