Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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European narcs are finding it hard to crack the Chinese Connection because they never made contact with their Chinese communities. Amsterdam police, for example, have only one Cantonese-speaking agent; hired translators face jarring death threats. Among street-level dealers and users, the triads enforce a ruthless code of silence that shields the trade's heroin "Godfathers." Time-tested techniques-infiltration, bribes, informers-have proved almost useless. "They're very closed," says a top French investigator, "and won't deal with anyone with round eyes...
...world's largest bank has long been tight-lipped about its business. Now it is pledging to become almost garrulous. Last week the San Francisco-based BankAmerica Corp. flew five senior officials to New York to unveil, with maximum publicity, a 26-page, 70-item "Voluntary Disclosure Code," under which the bank proposes to make available information that goes far beyond what banks are compelled by law to reveal. The disclosures, say bank officials, should help to dispel public suspicion of business and keep BankAmerica's executives toeing the mark. Intones a preamble to the code: "What better...
...major regions of the world, but not by country. Other banks already make available some of the information that BankAmerica now plans to disclose, and release of some other data may soon be compelled by the Securities and Exchange Commission, anyway. The bank has left itself some outs. The code says that BankAmerica will disclose information only to those "with a legitimate need," though officials promise that they will interpret this to include reporters, stockholders and borrowers...
There are indications that the bank's officers were divided on how open to be. President A.W. Clausen appointed a task force that was supposed to draft the code in six months; it took ten months. Says Executive Vice President Leland Prussia: "We really did plunge into some icy waters." On balance, the bank emerged with a code that is a welcome step away from needless secrecy...
...things in Rauschenberg's work, it was assumed by his best interpreters that the combines could carry no symbolic, still less narrative meaning. "There are no secret messages in Rauschenberg," wrote the late art historian Alan Solomon in 1963, "no program of social or political dissent transmitted in code...