Word: discreetly
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...such imponderables is graceful and funny. It is also ladylike: she never entangles former companions in rueful confessions. She tells of an unsatisfactory long affair with a well-known director, and although there must be 25,000 people in show business who know his name, she gives him a discreet pseudonym (Robin, for Robin Hood, because of his left-wing politics). She has a good eye for the bizarre and plenty of material to use it on, including a strange dinner date with Henry Kissinger and several Secret Service agents. She spent a good part of the evening, she says...
Months later, as Secretary of State, I found myself seated next to the Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. at a dinner. He leaned over and made an offer. Would the new Administration like to open a discreet line of communication with the rebels in El Salvador? I exploded: no longer, I said, would Washington deal secretly with insurgents who were attempting to overthrow legal governments in the Western Hemisphere. In the next four years, the Americas would see a determined U.S. effort to stamp out Cuban-supported subversion...
...airspace over northeastern El Salvador, U.S. OV-1B MOhawk and RU-21J Beechcraft reconnaissance aircraft based in nearby Palmerola, Honduras, are conducting discreet surveillance missions. The flights, manned by pilots from the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, have been under way since last month. Supplementing similar missions by longer-range RC-130 reconnaissance aircraft from Howard Air Force Base in Panama, the flights are intended to help fend off an anticipated increase in guerrilla activity as the March 25 election approaches. For the Reagan Administration, the Honduras-based forays have another advantage: they do not violate the self-imposed...
...Syria, an ally of Iran's, turned off the valve on Iraq's pipeline to the Mediterranean, reducing Iraq's oil exports to a mere 650,000 bbls. per day and its 1983 income to $9 billion. But with some discreet U.S. economic help and huge quantities of money from its Arab friends, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, Iraq has weathered its financial problems...
...walked home. There have been further shows of security force: cars and cabs stopped, credentials and satchels checked, reporters occasionally patted down politely. None of it has seemed meanspirited. Police are oddly reasonable, and after a time, scarcely noticeable. Skier Marie-Luce Waldmeier had a good word for them: "Discreet...