Word: masterminds
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Even by the convoluted standard of North African politics, Deby and Gaddafi are strange bedfellows. As adviser for security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...
...Manager Richard Zombeck is the mastermind behind the recent changes at the Bow. During the last eight months, he has hired a slew of Harvard students as bouncers and run advertisements in the student press...
Saying that "in a responsible government, pragmatism must prevail over ideology," the mastermind of Taiwan's economic boom told a Yenching Auditorium crowd yesterday that his country has been successful because the government has limited its role in the economy...
...Lebanese members of the group had already returned to Lebanon. Western terrorism experts believe Saddam could be especially interested in one of the prisoners, Mustafa Badreddin, a Syrian- trained explosives expert who is the brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyah, a Lebanese terrorist and suspected kidnapper identified as the mastermind behind the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Originally scheduled to fly from Athens to Rome, the plane was eventually taken to Beirut, where Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver who was a passenger on the flight, was beaten and shot to death. Saddam conceivably could try to enlist...
Although Bok stressed that Harvard needed a new president to mastermind an upcoming $2.5 billion fund drive, his resignation dashed hopes for its speedy start. University officials said the Bok resignation would likely delay the beginning of the drive for up to a year...