Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zach's parents Stanley and September Toungate have appealed to the school board, but it has refused to halt the confinement, as did a state district court judge. The school's superintendent, Paul Fleming, defends the dress code and the punishment. Zach and his parents may take the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals. If girls are allowed to wear their hair long, they insist, boys should...
...strike began in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, then spread throughout most of the country, shutting down public transportation for a week. The drivers were griping not about low wages but about a new law that imposed severe punishment for fatal accidents. Following an interpretation of Shariat, a code of Islamic laws, the guilty driver would be forced to pay a fine of $8,000 to the family of the deceased and serve up to 10 years in jail...
...entered a number a little closer to reality--the last three numbers of the Cambridge ZIP code. Luckily, the evil machine did not challenge...
...nation address, or informe, on Nov. 1, Salinas was interrupted repeatedly by catcalls and howls of disapproval from parties of the right and left. The irreverence stood in stark contrast to the respectful reception usually accorded a President in Mexico. When Salinas claimed that a new electoral code had been endorsed across the political spectrum and that a reliable voters' registration list was being drawn up, the opposition erupted in chants of "We repudiate electoral fraud...
...story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller. During the early days of the cold war, the Italian government, assisted by the CIA, sets up a clandestine paramilitary network designed to resist a communist invasion. Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano, uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues. Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade...