Word: central
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Silence and secrecy are articles of faith and a way of life in the high-security halls of the Central Intelligence Agency. It took a murky internecine dispute with the U.S. Army to force the CIA to step forward last week to tell its side of the strange story of Thai Khac Chuyen, a supposed Vietnamese double agent killed late in June. Eight members of the U.S. Special Forces, including the Green Beret commander in Viet Nam, Colonel Robert Rheault,* are under arrest in Long Binh. A civilian lawyer for one of the Green Berets has hinted that Chuyen worked...
Some five hours after Kapwepwe's resignation, Kaunda went on radio to declare a state of siege on the grounds that rising tribal tension was "splitting the nation." Moving to take over personal control of the United Party, Kaunda suspended its constitution, abolished its faction-ridden Central Committee, and sacked all of its officers-including No. 2 Man Simon Kapwepwe. "A change is absolutely necessary if we are to survive," said Kaunda...
...Manhattan, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously vetoed the Penn Central Company's second bid to build a $100 million office tower above Grand Central Terminal. To build it the company would either have to destroy Grand Central's facade (a superlative example of the ornate Beaux Arts style and a splendid climax to the long sweep of lower Park Avenue) or crowd it with a bland, impersonal slab set only 30 feet behind it. Either plan, the commission ruled, was unacceptable in a city already too poor in dramatic vistas. The commission's decision...
...passed over the land. One ton of locusts, which is only a small platoon in a typical swarm, can consume as much in a day as ten elephants, 25 camels or 250 people. Over the centuries, the locust's sporadic depredations have inflicted famine on huge areas of Central Africa and Lower Asia-from Morocco to India, from Tanzania to Turkey...
...better part of its history, Nobatia suffered from marauding bands of Arabs. In 1173, the central nave of the cathedral was destroyed. In other attacks, the irrigation system was irretrievably damaged, and as the land it had kept moist began to dry up, the relentless desert moved in. The remaining side naves became deeply embedded...