Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the Fords live and entertain, the President ordered that it be called "the residence." The name The Spirit of 76 emblazoned on the side of the President's plane will stay for a few months, but Ford plans by Christmas to reduce it again to the functional code, Air Force One. He has banished the royal "we" from statements and speeches. It will be "I." Talking Republican politics last Thursday, he came across the term surrogates used for those Administration speakers who will carry the G.O.P. banner. "I never did like that word when I was one," said...
When the young Roman Republic found itself dominating the world, it became clear that its traditional political system, moral code and institutions were not working properly. Julius Caesar understood this and wanted to act accordingly. That was his genius and his tragedy. Brutus was an honorable man, trying blindly to preserve the virtues of yesterday. When his dagger ended Caesar's vision, inadequate concepts and institutions were partly preserved, contributing to Rome's decadence and fall...
...eliminating President Nixon, the American people, politicians and press have once more used Brutus' dagger, not realizing that America's new world leadership, if expected to survive, has to disentangle itself from the obsolete Main Street morality code...
...peace talks in Geneva. Günes telephoned Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara to report that Greece would not accede to Turkish demands that the island be partitioned into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, and that the talks were fruitless. Almost immediately Radio Ankara signaled the code words: "TYK in Force," meaning start the assault. Within minutes, Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing the southwestern part of the city, where the headquarters of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, the civil police and the government radio...
Deeper Appreciation. Incoming A.B.A. President James Fellers, 61, says that he is "a bit more cautious and moderate" than Predecessor Smith, but he promised last week to continue the push for group legal services and a refurbishing of the code of legal ethics. A general practitioner in Oklahoma City, Fellers was president of the state bar in 1964 when a bribery scandal involving nearly half the Oklahoma supreme court led to a Fellers-appointed investigating committee. Final tally: one justice impeached and removed, two convicted of income tax evasion, and one dead before action could be taken. "Out of that...