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Romance? Aline Griffith, 63, recruited into the OSS while in college and ; sent to Spain as a code clerk, wound up marrying a Spanish grandee to become the Countess of Romanones. Festooned with diamonds and emeralds, she smiled knowingly as she reminisced: "I hate to say it, but war is fun." High times? Eugene Sherman was 19 and en route to a guerrilla base 100 miles from Canton when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan...
...been in the media nearly as much. Some analysts see this lower profile as a tribute to Carrington: "The alliance doesn't make news when it works," says Haass. The minor crises--the dispute over action against Libya, the sporadic battling of Greece and Turkey, the near departure of Spain from NATO--haven't worsened, and internal discussions about tactical and strategic issues haven't deteriorated...
Dostart and his roommates plan to meet up in Spain with another senior, Charlotte M. McKee '86, whose vacation in Europe is a graduation present which she discussed with her father last summer...
Only two months ago, Dubinin was named Moscow's Ambassador to the United Nations. Though that job gave him his first assignment on American shores, Dubinin was no diplomatic novice. Before going to the U.N., he served as the Soviet Ambassador to Spain for seven years, where he skillfully carried out the Kremlin's decision to restore good relations with the Spanish monarchy and Spain's Socialist political leaders. Still, he is regarded by some Western diplomats as conservative and cautious, an unsophisticated apparatchik who has a reputation for stonewalling at every turn. Some observers regard him as a throwback...
...reputed military chief of the Basque terror group ETA, Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, is suspected of masterminding dozens of killings in Spain. ETA most recently took responsibility for a bomb attack two weeks ago that killed five policemen. Iturbe, 42, has been kept out of reach of the Spanish since he fled to France in 1968. In 1982 French authorities declared him a political refugee...