Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alfred E. Vellucci's support, the Cambridge City Council last night gave preliminary approval to two controversial housing ordinances, one which attempts to clarify the council's original intention in passing anti-condominium legislation nearly three years ago, and a second which would provide a special exemption from that code to a group of tenants at a Linnaean St. building...
...wing guerrillas for a negotiated settlement. The U.S. has consistently opposed negotiations that would require the government to give up at the bargaining table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte's hard line against dealing with...
They are keepers of the keys to the U.S. arsenal of last resort. Inside the briefcase are "sealed authenticators," envelopes containing a variety of alphabetical codes called release messages. A series of a dozen or so code words, like TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER, once transmitted by the President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected...
...alert code would be instantly relayed by telephone, ultrahigh-frequency radio or teletype to the crews manning the 1,052 Titan and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in underground silos scattered across the Great Plains. At each launch site, the crew commander and his deputy would decode the incoming message separately, then make sure that the two versions matched. The two officers would open two combination locks to a safe; neither has the combination to both locks. If the sealed authenticator inside the safe matches the incoming message, the officers would take out separate firing keys and go to consoles about...
There would not be much time for deliberation and decision making. The Pentagon's Defense Support Program operates three Code 647 satellites in geostationary orbits that are outfitted with infra-red sensors to detect the firing of Soviet rockets. The single satellite over the Eastern Hemisphere would give the U.S. about half an hour's warning if the Soviets were to launch their land-based missiles; the two others, hovering high above the Western Hemisphere?one over the Atlantic, the other over the Pacific?would provide less than 15 minutes' warning of an attack from missile-launching submarines...