Word: coded
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When a French force under General Jean Baptiste Rochambeau linked up with George Washington's revolutionary army in 1781 to fight the British, France became America's first wartime ally. Thus it was fitting that the code word assigned to the first target in the French-U.S. thrust into Iraq was Rochambeau. The choice not only saluted France's fighting commitment to the allied cause but also symbolized France's newfound solidarity with the U.S. when war came...
...form a long defensive cordon, the French units had their hour in the sun of gulf victories. Together with some U.S. paratroop and artillery units, a French regiment with dune-dodging Gazelle helicopter gunships carrying HOT air-to-ground missiles led an attack on a fortified position, code-named Rochambeau, 30 miles inside Iraq. Defenders resisted for some time, but hundreds of them raised white flags as soon as they spied the approach of French tanks. As in a Foreign Legion adventure film of old, the force ended up neutralizing a division of some 8,000 Iraqis within 36 hours...
...other colleges, regulations restricting speech deemed insensitive has met with severe criticism. Tufts University instituted a policy of "free speech zones" that prompted fierce criticism. At Emory University, students are required "to respect the interests of the University." And an unusually broad and restictive code at the University of Michigan was struck down in 1989 by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Said he: "I believe the display of yellow ribbons should not be viewed as a political statement but rather as a symbol that we remember the men and women serving in the Persian Gulf." Even at Disney World, whose efficiency and neutrality rival those of Switzerland, the strict dress code has been modified to allow those among its 32,000 employees who do not deal directly with the public to wear yellow ribbons...
...much value in the doctrine of the Trinity, or in the belief that Jesus Christ was sent to save fallen humanity from sin. St. Paul, the missionary of Christianity to the Gentiles, was a repressed and "self-loathing" homosexual. As for the Old Testament, it contains a "vicious tribal code of ethics" attributed to a "sadistic" God. The idea that Yahweh bestowed the Promised Land upon the Israelites is "arrogance...