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...intelligence agency. Or it could also mean a CIA that once again steps beyond the realm of collecting secrets to intervening forcibly in the affairs of foreign states. In that area, the agency's history has often been one of blunders and worse, from Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s through the Bay of Pigs fiasco under John F. Kennedy to the Nicaraguan war that led to the Iran-contra debacle in the '80s. Some longtime intelligence watchers are wondering whether a reinvigorated paramilitary wing of the CIA could be a mixed blessing for America once again. And the military...
...Aviv's low-rent Ha-Tikva quarter, the moments after the election results came through were dismal. Outside the hall, the wind carried the discordant sounds of a few dozen disappointed activists gamely singing along with Labor leader Amram Mitzna, as he crooned old Zionist tunes from the 1950s. A clutch of young Labor supporters huddled on a wall, smoking cigarettes. Yoav Zinger, an 18-year-old, lamented that he was soon due to begin his compulsory military service. "That's why I'm depressed," he said. "So many people were killed already and now, after this election...
DIED. RICHARD SIMMONS, 89, whose 40-year acting career included the title role in the 1950s television show Sergeant Preston of the Yukon; in Oceanside, Calif. The show, by the same team behind The Lone Ranger, featured Sergeant Preston as a Canadian Mountie who solved crimes with his horse Rex and his dog Yukon King...
...DIED. RICHARD CRENNA,76, versatile Emmy Award-winning actor; in Los Angeles. Crenna was known to 1950s TV viewers as the grandson of a meddling hillbilly in The Real McCoys and later to moviegoers as Rambo's Vietnam War commander in First Blood (1982) and its two sequels. Crenna's movie credits also include the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) and sizzling film noir Body Heat...
...pull the Agnelli dynasty out of the auto business - cleared the way for the family's long-anticipated and inevitable exit from carmaking. The market's initial reaction was a reminder of just how much the Italian industrial landscape has changed since the heady days of the post-1950s boom, driven by the dashing Agnelli and his knack for selling stylishly small automobiles all over the world - and revving up the profits at home. "The car has led a revolution of customs and consumption," Agnelli once remarked. "At the same time, it has fundamentally launched the country's economic growth...