Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about a dozen men in jeans and sports shirts, armed with machine guns and .45-cal. automatics, surrounded us, covered our heads with hoods, forced us to the floor of a station wagon and roared off. The man in the front was speaking into a walkie-talkie, using the code word hospital, saying that the "operation was a success," and that we would be arriving in a few minutes. We did-at the Fourth Army headquarters in downtown Recife...
...largest, has an estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic?was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly routine guerrilla...
...report also calls for a redefinition of what the 1970 resolution called punishable violations, and recommends a specific code and guidelines to define punishable violations...
...blamed the delay on the amount of time needed to code the information for input into a computer...
...world. Needless to say, such an institution is likely to cause a certain amount of envy and resentment among those forced to do business with it. Among them you can number a smalltime diamond dealer (Charles Grodin), who is always being put down for violating its dress code or smoking in the waiting room, and a power-crazed tycoon (Trevor Howard) who wants to crack the vaults just for the hell of it. The third malcontent is an employee (James Mason) who is dying of cancer after 30 years of service, but just before the firm's unbending insurance...