Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible, with the support of Syria and the other Arab states that chose to boycott the Cairo conference. Begin recognized the challenge and, according to aides, relished the idea of going down in history as a peacemaker. Since their Jerusalem meeting, he and Sadat had continued to communicate in secret. But Begin also knew that the hours were running short. Said his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan: "We don't have much time to play with. The first phase [of the Cairo talks] will be over by Christmas. Then we must make the next move, either to meetings...
When West German counterintelligence agents swooped down on 16 East German spy suspects one night 18 months ago, the mass roundup was cheered as evidence that Bonn had finally found ways to ferret out the myriad espionage agents in its midst and plug the embarrassing flow of government secrets to the East. The cheers, it now appears, were premature. Last week the highly regarded Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung revealed contents of a secret Defense Ministry evaluation showing that Communist spying had been far more compromising to West German armed forces-and NATO-than anyone had previously imagined. Specifically, the government document...
Comp IV starts things off by thinking of- but not revealing - a number, and its human opponent tries to work out the secret by punching pushbuttons. Milton Bradley Co., which makes the gadget, supplies scratch pads for adults and slow-witted children, but self-respecting eleven-year-olds disdain these. The girl also does not bother with the relatively easy three-and four-digit problems. She plays at the rarefied five-digit level, which means she must hit on one out of a possible 30,240 combinations, and she keeps her notes in her head, the way the computer does...
...representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything in it is equally interesting. And so, in a funamental way, it becomes a powerful tool of separation...
...brokers and the bank set up 14 dummy corporations to acquire the 30 separate parcels involved. So closely was the secret held that when one of the dummy companies set up by the bank's top brass sought a loan to buy a parcel of the block, a lower-level Citibank officer turned it down. Chuckles Wriston: "He didn't know who he was saying...