Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the world. The team, which did its work at Cambridge, England, was led by Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, who with James Watson determined the structure of life's master molecule, DNA. His co-workers were Sydney Brenner, who discovered the "start" and "stop" signals in the genetic code; Aaron Klug, who first determined the crystalline structure of transfer RNA (tRNA), the molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome for assembly into protein; and George Pieczenik, 32, a biochemist now at Rutgers University in New Brunswick...
...Middle East has its own special catch-22: it is abristle with political code words that sound innocent but mean something else. Jimmy Carter has been tossing out these words with frightening freedom-frightening at least to some of the Middle East leaders and most professional diplomats. As ambiguous as any oracle. Carter has bestowed some of these loaded words on just about every aggrieved party in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but for the moment at least, the Israelis seem to be getting the worst of it. After Carter had announced himself in favor of a Palestinian "homeland," there were...
Initially, the Arabs were stunned when Carter endorsed "defensible borders" for Israel (code word for no return to the 1967 frontiers). In a welcoming address to the Palestine National Council in Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat seemed to be taking a slap at Carter when he declared that "it is inadmissible to speak about 'secure boundaries' [for Israel]. We will never yield one inch of our land...
Carter's clarifying statement that in a settlement Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders with only "minor alterations" (a favorite Arab code word) of the frontiers was almost more than Cairo had dared hope for. Although the Egyptians insist upon regaining all of Sinai, they believe that some modifications along the border between the West Bank and Israel are necessary where villages were divided by the 1949 armistice lines...
...then Carter came up with another code word-this one dear to Palestinian hearts. Speaking at the town-hall meeting in Clinton, Mass., the President observed that "there has to be a homeland provided for Palestinian refugees, who have suffered for many, many years...