Word: ironization
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Helms could not visit the Soviet Union until now. He began his intelligence career with the OSS in 1943 and headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. For 30 years he was the one who ran the spies. The unwritten but iron rule of the CIA was that no man who holds the secrets puts himself into a hostile environment...
...prophecy proved accurate. Last week Thatcher's Tory Party was resoundingly returned to office, although with a reduced majority. She thus became the first Prime Minister in modern British political history to win three successive general elections. The country's 43.7 million voters, who regard her iron-willed leadership with a mixture of admiration and anxiety, gave the Conservatives a 101-seat majority in the 650-member House of Commons, 43 fewer than the party had won in the 1983 elections. But that was more than sufficient for Thatcher to pursue her "unfinished revolution" in reshaping the political, economic...
...learn how fast sections of the hull are corroding, the drone poked "stab sensors" through encrusted sea life and rust and measured the electromagnetic field at the ship's surface. Reason: the Monitor's iron and steel combine with salt water to form a weak natural battery. The resulting electric current peels electrons from the hull, making it easier for oxygen atoms to attach themselves; oxidation, or rusting, ensues. To protect the Monitor while officials decide what to do, scientists may attach "sacrificial anodes" of zinc to the hull to divert the corrosion process away from the aging metal...
FOOTNOTE: *The wooden frigate Merrimack was fitted with iron plates and rechristened Virginia...
Though down from their 1983 high, the Tories capture a 101- seat majority, enough to help the Iron Lady in her campaign to "destroy socialism" in Britain. -- A TIME interview with the Prime Minister. -- On a visit to his native Poland, the Pope invokes the legacy of the outlawed Solidarity labor movement. -- A U. S. plan to give Pakistan AWACS planes flies into trouble...