Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to check the lawlessness, the government has launched a cleanup operation, code-named Octopus, in the Bulawayo region, including a nighttime curfew on the western suburbs. Mark Dube, Deputy Minister of lands resettlement and rural development, told Parliament that dissidents responsible for gangsterism should be brought to the capital, Harare, and publicly executed by firing squad in the stadium...
...Vinci, Rubens, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt. Conceived by Morse and Novelist James Fenimore Cooper (the creator along with Cooper and his family are the spectators in the work), Gallery was painted by Morse in 1832, about the same time he turned his inventive talents to the telegraph and Morse code. Terra, a chemical industry magnate who is President Reagan's ambassador-at-large for cultural affairs, bought the work (with his own money) in the hope of fulfilling Morse and Cooper's dream. Says the happy new owner: "Here you have these two great figures of their time...
...Reagan Administration is considering proposals to increase competition among health-care providers and place limits on tax-code provisions that permit excessive use of doctors and hospitals. The White House, however, has not submitted details to Congress, which has been unable to agree on its own plan...
Robert Bates, Manning is the professional descendant of David Homer Bates, whose operators scribbled out Civil War battle reports from Morse code rattling Abraham over the telegraph lines. Bates often handed the war news to Abraham Lincoln on his melancholy evening visits to the office next to the White House...
...analyzes data from a worldwide system of spy bases, ships, planes and satellites. It operates round the clock and employs some 10,000 staffers round the globe. Cheltenham is a vital part of the West's constant effort to break the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic codes. Now there is a distinct possibility that GCHQ may have unwittingly been providing information to the Soviets, a disaster that, if true, could nullify many of Britain's code-breaking efforts and jeopardize its intelligence links...