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...longer. Peter Wright, a disgruntled former deputy director of MI5, Britain's counterintelligence agency, has angered officials as high as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by planning to publish a book that alleges that MI5 engaged in some less-than-savory operations...
...Wright accuses the late Sir Roger Hollis, who headed MI5 from 1956 to 1965, of having been a double agent for the Soviet Union. He charges the service with bugging friendly French and West German embassies in London and breaking into Soviet consulates abroad. Wright also says MI5 was involved in a plot to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser during the 1956 Suez crisis. The accusations are not new: since retiring in 1976, Wright has pursued a campaign to make his charges known. Moreover, other authors have published similar allegations...
...past. The current campaign, however, has made him more forceful. He now seems to relish a national role. Asked at a forum how effective he would be in getting money for the elderly, he replied, "I was having dinner in Washington last week with Majority Leader Jim Wright, and we discussed my possible position on committees...
...Roosevelt, the first President to fly (19 months out of office), strapped himself into a spruce-and-wire rig down in St. Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field at 50 ft., waving his fedora. You could pick up a couple of those planes from Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton for about $10,000. The price of the 747s, which ultimately will come close to $300 < million including crew training, support units and spare parts, is gargantuan even when compared with the famous Boeing 707s introduced by Ike and raised to sad splendor by Kennedy and Nixon...
Reagan possesses a sort of genius for the styles of American memory, for the layerings of the American past. Wright Morris once wrote of Norman Rockwell that his "special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists . . . He understands the hunger, and he supplies the nourishment. The hunger is for the Good Old Days --the black-eyed tomboy, the hopeless, lovable pup, the freckle-faced young swain . . . sensations which we no longer have but still seem to want; dreams of innocence before it went corrupt." Reagan also understands the hunger. He does...