Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromise, the Interior Ministry, which runs the nation's hated secret and uniformed police, will be run jointly by a former dissident, the new Communist premier and a Communist Party member proposed by the opposition...
...largest Arab city in the West Bank. After two years of revolt, the ancient and impoverished community has won distinction as the most dangerous turf in the occupied territories. The dense, mazelike architecture gives the Palestinians a home- court advantage, enabling the young shabab (activists) to vanish down secret passageways or disappear over rooftops. Nervous soldiers respond with trigger-happy brutality. The consequences: at least 23 residents have been killed by Israeli troops, and more than 1,000 wounded. Internecine bloodshed has claimed an additional 18 Arabs accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Israelis feel no safer. One soldier died...
...note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic and self-controlled, she told Wattleton. You're a bit possessive. You can keep a secret. Wattleton's face was a mask. You dwell a great deal on the past, Arredondo continued. You are easily wounded, but you hide it well. When Arredondo finished, Wattleton was silent. Well, how much of it was true? Wattleton paused, and then said, very softly, "All of it." Then...
...world as it shifts from confrontation." When wind forced the first meeting to be moved to the dockside Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, Gorbachev remarked wryly, "The first thing to do is to eliminate those ships you cannot board in this kind of weather. We will have a secret agenda in this way to disarm the Sixth Fleet." That's the whole point, but it is quicker said than it should be done...
...Secret Santas may have had merrier holidays at Kirkland House. In a letter written by Kirkland Master Donald H. Pfister this week, the house's gift-giving festivities were characterized as a "mating ritual,... the culmination of a period devoted to titillating sexual activity under the guise of Holiday exchanges...