Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government, but Washington can assemble innumerable grand juries to investigate Ellsberg. This point may seem superfluous, but it is important to remember that in calling the jury, the government also determines the locale and, therefore, the likely circumstances of the trial proceedings. The indictees in the alleged Kissinger-kidnap plot could have been tried appropriately in New York or Danbury or in any other city where "damning" letters originated; of all such places, the Justice Department prosecutors opened their case in Harrisburg, a conservative city with virtually no student population, inhabited mostly by Lutherans who are said to be fiercely...
Unquestionably, the plot was carried out with punctilious regard for legal niceties. Kaplan was whisked away by helicopter while all but a handful of prison guards were watching a movie. Not a shot was fired, or a paving stone displaced, when the whirlybird swooped into Santa Marta Acatitla. In addition, the helicopter used in the escape was bought (for more than $25,000) rather than leased. The purchase was apparently a precaution against being accused of theft by the leasing company when the helicopter was taken over the border into Mexico. The single-engine Cessna used to complete the break...
...fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar espionage organization, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). An obsessive antiCommunist, Gehlen helped plot some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. But the shadowy chief of German intelligence was forced into retirement at the age of 66 in 1968, partly because two of his aides were found to be Soviet double agents. Now Gehlen has again stirred up a controversy-this time...
...been arrested by nightfall. That pointed up another worry. Too much tippling could wreck the state's principal industry: movies in the Tamil dialect. Since no one else understands them. Tamil movies are shown over and over to local viewers, who are often so taken with the actors, plot or music that they come back a third or fourth time. The problem now is, will the movie audiences remain as faithful when they have toddy shops to go to instead...
...plot is often, unfortunately, simplistic. A little boy's father leaves home to join the N.L.F. His mother dies soon afterward of an infected leg, and Hung and his little sister Xuan are left orphans of the war. A neighbor appropriates the money left for the children's care and mistreats them. So Hung and Xuan leave the neighbor's house for Saigon, and after a multitude of hardships are finally taken in hand by a kindly nurse. Xuan is placed in a children's clinic; Hung gets a mining job and visits his sister every...