Word: concealments
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...explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said the warning, "suggest it could have been intended for use against an aviation target in support of a 'high risk' operation...
...radio-cassette player: innocuous-looking, compact, popular with travelers. To a terrorist, the perfect place to conceal a bomb. British authorities concluded last week that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was hidden in a radio-cassette player. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately advised tighter checks on electronic goods at airports...
WASHINGTON Oliver I North "placed himself above the law" by lying to Congress and shredding documents to conceal his support of the Nicaraguan rebels, a prosecutor told jurors today at the opening of the former presidential aide's Iran-Contra trial...
Although Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat has notably moderated his language in the last few months, his movement has yet to overcome its words and deeds that reject peace. Its leaders continue to make statements that half conceal a determination to strike at the security of Israel. There can be no trust...
Occupied France, 1942. A righteous Christian banker is helping Jews to conceal their savings from the Nazis. Detained by the Gestapo, he commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money...