Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those responsible. But supposing it does catch the leakers. What can it do to them? Fire or demote them, perhaps, but not fine or jail them--or so it has always been assumed. While the U.S. has specific laws governing dissemination of highly sensitive material (atomic secrets, identities of covert agents), there are no statutes comparable to Britain's Official Secrets Act, generally making all types of unauthorized disclosure of information a crime. Congress has resisted attempts to write such a law as a potential infringement on free speech...
...screening is needed now, explains Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Richard Stilwell, because "the Soviet Union and its surrogates have become far more active in their covert quest for America's secrets. We have ten people awaiting trial on espionage charges, the highest figure in recent memory." Those selected for special testing will be mostly medium- and high- level officials, among them civilians, uniformed officers and even private contractors...
...starving Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan and brought them to the Promised Land. Declared one proud Israeli: "The rest of the world is talking about the famine in Ethiopia, and we are doing something about it. It makes me feel good." But two days after the covert seven-week mission, code-named Operation Moses, became public knowledge, it came to an abrupt halt. Just before a plane carrying some 200 Falashas landed in Israel, officials of Trans European Airways, the Brussels-based charter airline that had made 35 refugee-ferrying flights since late November, suddenly announced that...
Like the proverbial mule, the contras fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua just keep plodding along. Six months after the U.S. Congress voted to cut off their covert Central Intelligence Agency funding, the rebels have come to depend increasingly on supplies and money from private U.S. sources. Economic hardship has forced the guerrilla factions to halt their frequent bickering, but a united front remains elusive. The war itself has quieted down, with the insurgents avoiding battles with Nicaraguan troops in favor of ambushes and hit-and-run strikes. The overall reality, however, has not changed: the contras right...
...primary reasons for this continuing abuse of human rights lies in the covert nature of the violations--most of the abuses involve secret arrests or deliberate cover-ups. We must take some of the blame, however, for not taking united, direct action to countermand such terrorists acts in other countries...