Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural footnote: the Yakuza in Japan is very much like the Mafia Stateside: a clandestine and very powerful criminal organization with heavy political connections. The Yakuza has its own code of conduct but, typically, the code has a kind of fearful stringency that makes the Mafia look by comparison like a gang of clubhouse rowdies...
...cause remains a secret, the consequence was soon evident. The sub's hull, already weakened and damaged by the explosion and severe water pressures, cracked into two pieces. According to the CIA's account, the aft two-thirds, including the conning tower and the coveted missiles and code room, slipped back to the seabed. The forward third, which remained gripped firmly in the grapnels, was deposited in the still submerged barge. Blowing its water ballast, HMB-1 rose to the surface. Even if only partially successful, as the CIA claims, the mission was a major technological achievement. Nothing...
...Pacific. But so far as is known, U.S. experts have never had the opportunity to run their hands over a Soviet nuclear warhead, or look inside. Nor, presumably, have U.S. cryptographers ever had the chance to examine the construction of a Soviet cipher machine or to read Soviet code books...
...WOMEN WOULD come right out and say that they just aren't interested in meeting other women. Instead, they use code words, usually inadvertantly like, "I can only talk about books and politics with men" or "I like the four-to-one ratio in the Harvard Houses." But the meaning is there; to these women, men are simply more impressive...
...this shuttle with Wife Nancy. From time to time he consults a fat blue looseleaf notebook crammed with constantly updated bargaining positions, options and alternatives, or studies the flood of incoming "Tosec" or outgoing "Secto" cables (550 in the first week of the latest shuttle) that pass in code between his Air Force jet and Washington. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to use a telephone. "I won't talk on the phone," he barked at an aide who suggested an airborne call. "I don't want 600 intelligence organizations listening to my conversation...