Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times obviously demand a bold new approach to the punishment of top political officials in this country. No more pathetic slaps on the wrist but no undue cruelty. Why not go back to the Code of Hammarabi--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? In other words, let the punishment fit the crime...
Before the strike, Lorenzo was selling off Eastern's assets in order to keep the airline in service. Now Lorenzo, under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, cannot sell assets without the approval of a Federal bankruptcy judge, and his sale of the Eastern Air Shuttle to Donald Trump is stalled. Lorenzo can draw on the assets of Continental Airlines and Texas Air to keep up the fight, but you can be sure that every $29 you give to Lorenzo goes straight into the unionbusting side. Every passenger must ask him or herself, in the words of the famous union...
Some religious organizations and conservative groups have attacked Koop's AIDS report, charging that it contradicts his moral code...
Gorbachev's opponents are equally aware that much is at stake. The Soviet tradition of unity among all leaders still forbids any direct criticism of Gorbachev's policies. Such debate as does occur is carried on in Aesopian language, and history is currently the favored supplier of code words. Thus when Yegor Ligachev and other conservatives cry that denunciations of Stalin are shaking people's faith in the Soviet system, they are really saying that perestroika and glasnost are going too far. Gorbachev's partisans get the point, and respond with redoubled attacks on Stalin and his admirers today...
...British attempts to repatriate him to the USSR. I went to the US Army headquarters service (still at the time the OSS or its successor) and in a jeep went north looking for Poppe whom we finally found in Rittergut (estate) called Boeckel, newar Duesseldorf. We gave him a code name `Pushkin' and then tried to obtain an academic post for him in the USA. He finally went to the University of Washington in Seattle...