Word: plotters
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Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy did lavish effusive praise on Reagan's speech in a bilateral meeting on Thursday. But then Craxi and Reagan were both eager to demonstrate renewed friendship after the angry exchanges over the Achille Lauro hijacking and the Italian release of Suspected Plotter Abul Abbas that led to the fall of Craxi's government (he is now forming a new one). Thatcher was more reserved. She told British reporters that Reagan's proposal for a regional peace process "requires a great deal of thinking before we dash into comments...
...Newark city council member Cory Booker, who accepted $15,000 from Kushner in his unsuccessful bid to become Newark mayor in 2002. Booker says he sat shivah with Kushner recently after the death of his mother Rae, a Holocaust survivor. Booker saw only a grieving son, not the venal plotter who would mail motel-room porn to his sister...
...more: Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument, is stronger and more confident, and she has become a virtuoso plotter, a master at snappy pacing, able to stun and surprise at will...
PAKISTAN On June 14 a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside the American consulate in Karachi, killing 11 and injuring 45 others. But there were successes as well. Officials say they detained Pakistani associates of American dirty-bomb plotter Jose Padilla. The Pakistanis also claimed that over the past few weeks, border raids had captured several more American al-Qaeda fighters, though U.S. officials denied the claim...
...announcement of a foiled "dirty bomb" plot - or at least the apprehension of a plotter who hadn't quite formulated his plan - serves as a timely reminder that congressional probes into pre-September 11 intelligence failures are taking place in the midst of continuing peril. But like those vague threat warnings that periodically emanate from the authorities these days, Monday's announcement of the detention of Abdullah al Muhajir poses more questions than it answers...