Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legally under the code they can. Humanely, as the Smilja incident dramatically illustrated, grave problems are raised in consigning returnees to an uncertain fate back home. Since most Yugoslavs are economic refugees, more than half the 4,852 who crossed the Austro-Yugoslavian border since the crackdown began New Year's Day 1958 have been returned...
...auspicious area for broadening the rule of law: the economic field, where the process of international investment is sadly in need of a code governing relationship between investors and capital-hungry nations. One positive step that the U.S. can take to broaden the authority of the international court: relaxation of the Connally amendment of 1946. which reserves to the U.S. the right to decide whether to permit disputes to go before the international court. The State Department, said Nixon, is now preparing suitable recommendations to Congress...
...vendettas. The noblemen have disappeared; today's Camorra members grew up in the thriving black markets of World War II, and boast that they even disassembled and stole an entire U.S. ship piece by piece-from the Bay of Naples.* Among those who lived by the modern Camorra code was Big Pasquale Simonetti, who sold "protection" to the local growers and sellers of vegetables and fruit...
...while Big Pasquale was peeling his morning orange in the marketplace, he was accosted by a little man called "The Ship" because of his rolling gait. Within minutes, Big Pasquale was reaching for his pistol, but The Ship was too fast for him. True to the Camorra code. Big Pasquale told the police nothing, and everyone around-the shoeshine boy, the boy's customer, even the woman who sold the oranges-had sudden lapses of memory. But before he died in the hospital, Big Pasquale told Little Doll what had happened: Tony Esposito had sent The Ship around...
Knock First, Sour Kraut, etc. In Hamburg, West Germany, after a rash of mysterious signs (small crosses, arrows) appeared on houses all over the city, police learned that they represented a secret code among door-to-door salesmen...