Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of a combination of Saudi oil blackmail and Carter/Brzezinski's shortsighted appeasement policy and apologetic propaganda, the Saudis will now get their military jets. But what that country, which still publicly beheads men and stones women to death, really needs is a 20th century criminal code and not the most advanced weaponry made by mankind today...
There was also tough talk in Washington as the Carter Administration stepped up its criticism of Moscow for meddling in Africa. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski harshly denounced the Soviets for violating the "code of detente" and for making a "shortsighted attempt to exploit global difficulties." Brzezinski and other U.S. officials maintained, in the face of Soviet and Cuban denials, that the rebels who invaded Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba province last month had been trained by Cuban troops and equipped by Moscow. Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them...
...diffuses the pressure. My freshman year, Straus people weren't inhibited from running naked through the halls during a water fight. The Straus Rape and Pillage Society, a group made up of Straus freshmen who are notorious for 'boisterous activities,' is a group whose very nature is contrary to code living," says Duffy...
Chavkin did intend his book to be a warning. He makes that clear at the end of his first chapter when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting experimentation on humans unless the subjects are fully aware of the nature of the experiment and freely give consent. Through the MK-ULTRA program the CIA spent more than $25 million to sponsor research often carried out on unwitting subjects...
...rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...