Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 27, the Times quoted a classified report as saying information Howard gave the Soviets devastated U.S. intelligence operations in Moscow and led to the execution of one of the CIA's prime contacts, a Soviet engineer. CIA Director William Casey, through a spokeswoman, refused at the time to confirm or deny the existence of such a report...
...media to tout the discovery as something it isn't--a major breakthrough. In fact, the media makes this mistake quite often when dealing with medical discoveries. A comparison of the articles that run in the weekly New England Medical Journal and your local newspaper will quickly confirm that...
...good reason for reticence. Military observers suspect that the plane was an F-19 Stealth fighter, a supersecret aircraft whose shape, materials and electronic gadgetry make it less visible than normal planes to enemy radar. The Stealth- fighter program is so secret that the Air Force does not even confirm its existence. Few civilians have ever seen the Lockheed-built plane, which is tested only under cover of night...
...Atlanta and environs at a ten-day celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell's novel about the Old South, Gone With the Wind. The U.S. Postal Service last week even issued a definitive memorial 1 cents U.S. postage stamp with Mitchell's likeness. As if to confirm the cult status of the Pulitzer- prize-winning novel (25 million copies sold in 27 languages) and the 1939 movie, serious philatelists and GWTW aficionados alike stormed a postal booth and bought 50,000 of the new stamps...
Spaniards responded by giving the Socialists 44% of the vote and 184 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament. While the seat total was 18 fewer than in the 1982 landslide, the party kept its legislative majority. "These results confirm that we have been following the right track," said Gonzalez. Yet the party's swerve toward the center created some doubters. Many of the lost Socialist seats were picked up by the Democratic and Social Center Party of Adolfo Suarez, which boosted its representation from two seats to 19. Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister after...