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Convinced by now that Miss X was trustworthy, he handed her a big job. She was to deliver a paper-wrapped parcel to a man in Adelaide who would identify himself with a password. What Skripov did not know was that Miss X had been working for Australian intelligence all along, and she simply turned the parcel over to government agents. Inside they found coded transmission timetables for a Soviet radio station, along with a small, high-speed radio message sender. After waiting two anxious months for Miss X to carry out her task, Skripov last week learned what...
...days beforehand, the single sentence had been heard so often among people in the New York art world that it began to sound a bit like a secret password: "I suppose I'll be seeing you Wednesday night." On the night in question last week, the nation's biggest auction house, Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold off a group of 24 paintings that had been collected by the late advertising executive Alfred William Erickson and his wife Anna. Among the paintings was Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, which bears the unhappy nickname of "The Million...
Three nights after the kidnaping, Raymond waited nervously in a dark alleyway near the Arc de Triomphe. Eric's father approached, carrying a satchel containing $100,000 in small bills. When he heard the password, "Keep the key," he dropped the satchel, turning just in time to catch a glimpse of Raymond as he made off. Next morning, young Eric was found, unharmed, in front of a cafe near home...
...against the ruling Democrats during the three-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting were thrown back by troops. The legislative "inquiry" into the opposition Republicans' "subversive and illegal" activities was already well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police, and the Menderes forces thought they saw an opportunity to organize a counter-demonstration to show the world that the mass of Turks still gave their support to the government. They...
...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...