Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late at night, while most of Washington sleeps, two political strategists are jaw-boning on the phone. Polishing the next big speech, "war gaming" the next five clashes with their opponent, they argue in a kind of rapid-fire code, a political shorthand developed during a 17-year partnership. One of the two strategists happens to be the President of the U.S. The other, a banty, cocksure New Yorker named Dick Morris, is the most influential--and infamous--political consultant on the planet...
...drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence of its hard-nosed antidrug policy. "We've said time and time again, there's no place for drugs in the U.S. Navy," says Rear Admiral Kendall Pease...
When it comes to keeping hot new technologies under wraps, sleep-starved engineers often have a Mission: Impossible on their hands. Result: a slew of indecipherable nicknames. Try matching the code names below with the "revolutionary" (and yet to be delivered) products...
...Among developing nations, Indonesia is among those with the greatest reduction of poverty and fastest growing literacy and education rates. At least partially as a result of HIID's work, the nation has seen an increase in life expectancy, massive internal market reform and sweeping changes to its tax code...
With that, the sting was on. According to the 34-page criminal complaint filed in San Francisco's U.S. District Court last week, Hipple helped Ku smuggle in 20,000 machine-gun stands. Ku then told the agent to fax his weapons wish list to Ku's secretary, using code words: "apples" for automatic weapons; "Alpha Kings" for AK-47s; "poppers" for grenades. Later a Florida ATF agent was introduced to Ku as an arms dealer interested in machine guns. Eventually the undercover team negotiated an order for 2,000 AK-47s. They paid Ku and his associates...