Word: secret
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...Army BlackHawk helicopters have crashed when their pilots flew too close to radio antennas elsewhere and lost control of their choppers. The Air Force has now compiled a list of 300 powerful radio transmitters in the U.S. that its pilots must avoid by a certain distance. The list is secret...
While Barbouti acknowledges that he was aware of the chemical plant, he says he is sure it was not designed to turn out chemical weapons. "In four years, sitting with the engineers and technical people on committees, nobody has mentioned or hinted that something secret is there," he says. In fact, he argues, one Rabta building, code-named Pharma 150 and reportedly the center for poison-gas manufacture, was not even included in his original design. "I draw the site plan myself -- my hand," declares Barbouti, adding that Pharma 150 was built sometime in 1987, after he completed his work...
...SMART, AGAIN! (ABC, Feb. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Would you believe? The '60s spy take-off, starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon as secret agents, is back as a TV movie. You would...
...subject. A talented writer who enjoys the craft, Darman writes occasional essays, sometimes leavening abstruse material with sports metaphors. He began a major analytical book on the process of governance 14 years ago, during one of his brief recesses from public service. He treated the work as a secret, showing pieces of it only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come...
...arms-for-hostages deals with Iran were kept secret from Congress until October 1986, when "the roof caved in on this house of cards" with public disclosures about the Iran-Contra affair, Keker said...