Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Operating under a secret pact with Britain and France, Israeli armies overrun the Sinai Peninsula. Franco-British forces move in to "protect" the Suez Canal. Under U.S. and Soviet pressure, Britain and France soon withdraw, and Israel pulls out nearly a year later. A U.N. force is installed to guard the Egyptian-Israeli border...
Someone in the schizophrenic California-based cult, which hacked a spare living out of the Guyana soil while banking millions in secret Swiss accounts, had recorded the final 43 minutes of the colony's existence. The tape was found by a U.S. consular employee in Guyana and turned over to the FBI. Guyanese officials were given a copy. While both Guyana and the U.S. Justice Department refused to release the tape, copies somehow proliferated. The one obtained by TIME last week discloses that Jones' death decree was met with stubborn resistance as well as fatal acquiescence...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, 71, had another showdown last week. Following days of equal-rights demonstrations by thousands of angry Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said...
Rhoodie contends that at least six Cabinet ministers, including P.W. Botha, knew about the information department's connection with The Citizen, as well as its role in other secret projects. All the officials concerned have denied this allegation, but the scandal has already led to the resignation of one ranking Cabinet member: former Minister of Information Cornelius P. Mulder, who was Rhoodie's supervisor. Some observers believe Vorster must surely have known about the slush fund; there are also suspicions that his awareness of the impending scandal may have been an important reason behind his sudden retirement...
...organization has a well-guarded auto body shop that builds secret compartments; with ingenuity, 500 pocket-size Bibles can be stuffed into a Volkswagen bug. Besides literature, the teams sometimes bring in clothing, radios, even debugging equipment to foil police surveillance...