Word: edict
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...well as taking action on the economic front, Babangida moved aggressively to ensure basic human rights for Nigerians. An hour after taking the presidential oath of office, he abolished an edict that Buhari had used to muzzle criticism from the lively Nigerian press. Babangida permitted Buhari to retire honorably from the army. Buhari's right-hand man, Major General Tunde Idiagbon, a Muslim, was allowed to return from Saudi Arabia, where he was making a pilgrimage to Mecca when the coup occurred. Noted a Nigerian journalist: "In most countries, a man like Idiagbon would have been shot...
...edict was softened by one significant exception. The Navy indefinitely extended a deadline for bids on four new attack submarines. This leaves open the possibility that General Dynamics will eventually be permitted to compete for this contract despite its current suspension. According to the Defense Department, the reprieve is an effort to preserve competition among contractors. Only one other firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., is capable of making the attack submarine. Said Navy Secretary John Lehman: "This is not an action to protect General Dynamics. This is an action to protect the public interest...
...Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...
...minor leaguers will be compelled to take the tests, though cocaine is not a drug generally associated with smaller salaries. At that, urine sampling is common if not routine in the bush leagues already. The Hagerstown Suns, Baltimore's Class A farmhands, thought it hilarious that the commissioner's edict fell on the day of their regular checkup. "We'll standardize the tests, though," says Ueberroth, whose Olympic experience assures him that the results are dependable. Maybe, like helmets in hockey, the tests will become such a matter of course in the minors that they will hardly be noticed...
...media scrutiny would have been unthinkable for those two discreet representatives of Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Smiley and James Bond. The formerly anonymous head of Britain's MI5 counterintelligence agency, Sir John Jones, 62, was doubtless shocked to find his picture, partly blotted out by government edict, in London's Sunday Times. A few days later, a national television audience got an unprecedented look at MI5's internal operations in a controversial documentary. In short, last week the lid was blown off Britain's venerable intelligence establishment. The reason, according to Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "The secret...