Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings on campaign finance abuses, Thompson's committee may have both. The Senator departed from his pre-released script when he led off this morning with the plot, alleging that "high-level Chinese government officials" plotted to influence U.S. elections with illegal money in a secret operation. "Our investigation suggests the plan continues today." And then came the witness: John Glenn told Senators that Democratic fundraiser John Huang, the central figure in the investigation, had changed his mind at the last minute and is now willing to testify. Glenn said Huang had offered to forgo immunity...
...from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known as Area 51, talk-radio guru Art Bell spreads news of UFOs and sunken continents. To the northwest, in the Black Rock Desert, hippies and cyberpunks gather by the thousands for their annual Burning Man Festival, an orgy of punk rock, spontaneous gunplay and off-road motor...
That Ohio has two public school systems--one for the poor and one for everybody else--is no longer the state's dirty secret. Its supreme court in March was so outraged at this feudal arrangement that it ordered an immediate reform in the way Ohioans pay for education. The problem landed in the lap of a popular two-term Governor, George Voinovich, who must now balance the grievances of parents in hard-pressed rural and urban districts with the sense of entitlement of those living in more affluent suburbs. In sparsely populated Vinton County, where wages...
...last October, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies had agreed on a "Statement of Fact," a top-secret document that concluded China was helping Pakistan build the Rawalpindi plant and that warned the facility could be producing key parts of the rocket within two years. The White House and State Department, however, have treated the report like a barrel of radioactive waste, refusing to schedule interagency meetings during the past seven months, even to discuss whether China should be penalized...
...reviewing Naomi Wolf's latest treatise, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (Random House; 286 pages; $24), a number of critics have complained that the feminist author writes as a pop-culture illiterate. This is not entirely so, for surely no one else has ever found so much significance in the work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor...