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...narrative runs from the early 1930s through the end of World War II, covering journalistic sojourns abroad and in Fleet Street and wartime experiences as a cloak-and-dagger man in Africa and Europe. Among Muggeridge's notable colleagues of that tune were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger denied that a superpower confrontation was likely. But Moscow once more alerted airborne divisions in a show of strength, and both the Soviet Mediterranean fleet and the U.S. Sixth Fleet dispatched combat vessels toward the island. Kissinger insisted that the U.S. and Russia were not heading toward a clash, explaining that the ship movements are normal precautions when war breaks out in the area...
Actually Ecevit's government had already decided on an invasion. Even as Sisco sat with the Prime Minister on the midnight before the landings took place, the Turkish fleet was approaching Kyrenia and pilots were manning their planes. With Turkish passions for action running so high, Ecevit was certain that his government would fall if it backed down. Moreover he sensed that no country was eager to recognize Sampson as President of Cyprus and thus no major power would complain too much if Sampson was toppled...
...island is the key Middle East intelligence center for the Kremlin (as it is for the U.S.). Russia's Nicosia embassy is larger than any of its embassies in Cairo, Teheran and Beirut. A sophisticated communications center links the Cyprus embassy with Moscow and the Soviet Mediterranean fleet as well as with two Russian spy ships that monitor radio traffic off the Israeli coast. The entire operation would almost certainly cease if Sampson remained President of Cyprus...
Parkhurst expects stiff opposition to the bill from a broad spectrum of transportation concerns, including the railroads, the American Trucking Associations, Inc., the Teamsters and especially the large fleet trucking companies. Yet he says he hopes that the independent truckers acquired enough national standing last winter to be able to put the bill through on their...