Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were few signs of disturbance in the dusty, sunbaked capital of Khartoum. Paratroop and armored units surrounded the presidential palace and government ministries. The city's international airport and key bridges were closed, but communications lines remained open. The Egyptian-owned Middle East News Agency reported the arrest of...
U.S. investigators determined that it would take KGB safecrackers one to four hours to crack each lock inside the code room. Opening the CIA vault would trigger another set of sensors that would ring at the Marine post. It would also be recorded by a device that counted the number...
Many have said that such a system ensures that the Corporation remains a closed, secretive body, and until this year critics were in the habit of pointing to the fact that no woman or minority had ever sat on the board.
The $200-a-share offer is certain to be welcomed by money managers and shareholders who had chafed at Time's rejection of the original Paramount bid. Said Paul Kagan, head of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based firm that follows the media industry: "It will be very hard for...
Asian and Western nations alike are coping with the crush by packing refugees into overcrowded detention centers and camps. Upwards of 14,000 are warehoused in Hong Kong's three "closed centers," the detention areas for those boat people recognized as potentially legitimate refugees. In Thailand . about 300,000 Cambodian...