Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above nicknames; in memos and meetings he was referred to as "RN," or "the President," or occasionally by his military code name, "Searchlight...
...book stresses that for the most part, the French still live under a repressive moral code; sex education and contraception are very rarely taught and practiced. In many parts of the country, parents expect their daughters to maintain their virginity until marriage, and masturbation is taboo. "Male domination" is another cause of the French sexual misery, says Gallien, who adds that "our book is profoundly feminist...
...United Nations plane from Cairo that would ferry the prisoners from Ben-Gurion Airport to Damascus. Compounding the confusion was the fedayeen's complicated plan for effecting the release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French ambassador to Syria, who would relay it via Paris to Ambassador Herly at Ma'alot. Only then would the hostages be released. The situation, said Major General Shlomo Gazit, Israel's intelligence chief, became "a mission...
...reporter signaling with a flower pot containing a red flag, meetings in an underground garage at 2 a.m. and the code name "Deep Throat" are typical examples of the techniques that led to false accusations based on triple hearsay, trial by the press instead of by jury, and criticism of the press even by those who feel that the President is guilty of numerous criminal offenses. It is inexcusable for reporters, even in desperation, to attempt to obtain secret information from grand jurors...
...school, students lie on the floor listening to Beethoven and Wagner, learn math by playing with dice and cards, and stroll the halls in jeans and T shirts. At another, there are spelling bees, reading drills, a strict dress code-and paddlings. The two schools seem so different they could be on opposite sides of the planet. But both are located in Pasadena, Calif, (pop. 113,000), a Los Angeles suburb, and are part of a school system that offers one of the nation's most diversified educational programs...