Word: secret
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...eventually gives in to Pakistani entreaties and supplies technicians, they will be at risk both in the air and on the ground in Pakistan, where agents of KHAD, Afghanistan's secret service, frequently stage terror bombings. Last week three time bombs ripped through a Peshawar railway station. In addition, the deal has run into opposition from Senator John Glenn of Ohio, a Democrat who is an outspoken critic of Pakistan's nuclear program. Later this month Glenn plans to propose an end to all U.S. military aid until Islamabad demonstrates that it has ceased production of weapons-grade uranium...
News of the account, opened in the name Button, gave yet another twist to the Iran-contra hearings on Capitol Hill. A growing body of evidence indicates $ that North was not merely a reckless Marine who was acting purely for patriotic reasons in setting up the secret contra supply network and trading arms for hostages with Iran. Instead, last week's testimony suggested that like many of his private-sector companions, North may have been driven in part by a profit motive...
According to Hakim's testimony, North's motives may have been tainted by politics as well as profit. Hakim said he attended a secret meeting between North and other U.S. officials and Iranian government representatives in West Germany last October. North, said Hakim, was extremely eager for all of the U.S. hostages to be released before the November congressional elections, to "enhance the position of the President." But the Americans and the Iranians were at loggerheads. As North prepared to leave the meeting, Hakim asked if he could take over the negotiating. North gave him six hours...
...Senate Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, Hakim's private foreign policy dealings were more disturbing than the indications of profiteering. Although Congress has been denied access to sensitive foreign policy material, Inouye pointed out, Hakim and other private operatives were handed top-secret KL-43 encryption devices, "something that the KGB would love to grab hold of." Moreover, he said, to learn of an "American lieutenant colonel . . . committing this country, its power and majesty, to defend Iran, without even consultation with the Congress of the United States, is just unbelievable...
...them. "We've run a miserable campaign," conceded a prime-ministerial colleague. One factor was the heavy security for the Prime Minister, the target of recent threats by the Irish Republican Army. She has been surrounded by plainclothes police in bulletproof vests, and her schedule has been kept secret until the last moment...