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...setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that the hearthstone moved. Underneath was a shaft leading down to a room in which eight men were hiding. Among them: much-wanted Argyrious Karademas, Greek arms smuggler, trained saboteur and prison breaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Big Shoot | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear Comrade | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes loves dams. He considers anybody who criticizes his dams an enemy and a saboteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Dams & Deficits | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Paterson, N.J., Matti Raivio was found guilty of stealing $193 from a liquor store despite his explanation to the court: "As a man trained as a saboteur and a spy, I would not commit such a childish type of crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Another saboteur is the man who seeks a "Government subsidy," a way "of getting money out of the Government and into his business and not getting caught at it. One is the 'Buy America' policy [favoring American bidders over foreign competitors], which funnels profits into the hands of certain corporations and certain labor groups. Surely the great corporations can struggle along without a 10% edge over their foreign competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: After the Third Highball | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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