Word: mum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy...
There is growing talk in Republican circles that Bush should announce that Baker will stay on as chief of staff for a year after re-election. On that proposal, both Bush and Baker are mum. Bush resented having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, and Baker was not keen to return to a job he had for four years under Ronald Reagan. "In the next two months," said a longtime Baker watcher at the campaign, "we're going to find out whether this is just another case for Jim Baker to win a verdict...
...show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design of his clothes." Who else could merge Diana Vreeland and Diane Sawyer? No one Elsa...
...call for a "civil war" against crime and drugs. In 1988 two different journalists wrote that Perot encouraged Dallas cops to "go in ((to high-crime neighborhoods)), cordon off the whole area, going block by block, looking for guns and drugs." When the stories first appeared, Perot was mum -- a telling silence since no one can recall his having ever let a perceived inaccuracy stand uncorrected. Today, however, with such famous civil libertarians as Dan Quayle predicting that Perot would gut the Constitution, the un-candidate swears, "I never said...
...strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington to Baghdad...