Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book to his sense that we are in an epochal moment in history. "All the metaphors of Western culture are beginning to change," he says. "The warrior metaphor has shaped men's lives for hundreds of years. That is changing, but it will take another hundred years. The code we have to break is that of the warrior psyche." Keen, like Bly, regards the recent gulf war as a return to old and discredited metaphors, more a problem of George Bush's unresolved male identity than geopolitics. Man, he says, must become a custodian, not a conqueror, of the planet...
...cocaine bricks unearthed from the lye were marked with a destination code, "Baby I." The same marking had been found on an 18,000-kg seizure near Los Angeles two months earlier. Baby I turned out to be a Santacruz protege in New York, Luis ("Leto") Delio Lopez, 28. His style, according to DEA agents, embodied the typical Cali cartel executive: businesslike, resourceful, hard- working and discreet...
...Each cell is directed by a Caleno like Leto Lopez and staffed by relatives and neighbors whose salaries are banked in Cali. Their accounts are debited when they make mistakes. The code of conduct is strict: nondescript clothing, four-door family cars, no drunkenness, no loud parties. Also no failures, no excuses, no second chances. This unforgiving system produces few defections: the penalty for dissent is death, not only for cell members but also for their kinsmen back home in Colombia...
After each meeting, both drivers alert the cell head in code from a mobile phone or beeper. He telephones a desk officer in Cali, then sends confirmation by fax. Detailed ledgers are maintained in both countries. The ledgers have proved the system's main vulnerability, providing a rich lode of data to DEA analysts when seized...
Some associates say, however, it wasn't really a love of perks that sent Sununu by ground but fear of getting snickers from fellow passengers. Silly man: the unspoken code of the New York shuttle dictates that no one pays the famous -- or the infamous -- any attention...