Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's an idea for the Navy. I can already see it: a top-secret military program teaching cows how to swim and snorkel...
...NIGHT WATCH by Mikhail Kurayev (Novy Mir, No. 2, 1989). A fascinating journey inside the mind of a fictional secret policeman, Comrade Polubolotov, who helped carry out the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s but insists he was merely "a soldier...
...drug use. Though there is little evidence of widespread drug abuse among Executive Office workers, their image was not helped by the disclosure last week that two White House guards were fired and one resigned last May after an investigation into allegations of cocaine use among members of the Secret Service's uniformed division. Two NSC clerks were also relieved of their duties. The testing is necessary, says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, because the Administration must offer "leadership in providing random drug testing as a means of ensuring a clean workplace...
...were unearthed, along with paraphernalia of everyday life -- remnants of packed lunches, purses filled with kopecks -- indicating that the people had been snatched from their daily routines to be shot. With that, the truth became clear: from 1937 until the approach of Nazi invaders in 1941, Joseph Stalin's secret police had used the Kurapaty forest as a killing field. Estimates of the number of men and women buried there range from 30,000 to more than...
...chaos of the student strike escalated on the Harvard campus, an underground journal with a mysterious pipeline to the administration's secret documents added fuel to the conflict with its own brand of news and commentary...