Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When De Gaulle emerged from the somnolent village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises last May, France was sliding hopelessly into civil war. "The carrots are cooked, the carrots are cooked," blared Radio Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris...
Last week, after years of wrangling among judges and party officials over how far the reforms should go, the revised body of Soviet criminal law was put before the Supreme Soviet and swiftly approved. Embodying for the most part changes that have already been adopted in fact, the new code puts the final seal on one of the major developments of Russia's post-Stalin period...
...Double Webs, Author Jean Overton Fuller charges that S.O.E. was totally fooled by a French-born double agent code-named "Gilbert," who was better known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion...
Last year the City refused to grant a building permit for Quincy House because no provision was made for off-street parking. But the Appeals Board overruled the decision and approved the permit on the grounds that the word "dormitory" is not used in the section of the present code requiring off-street parking spaces...
Since there appears to be no likely site for new dormitory construction within 1500 feet of the Business School parking lot, other parking facilities might have to be provided. But the code would probably not require that facilities be University-owned...