Word: secret
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...death-squad murders of some 40 political activists. With that, the sarcophagus of silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both...
BORN: Nov. 30, 1945, Omaha EDUCATION: U of Nebraska, B.A., 1967; Indiana U, J.D., 1975 FAMILY: Wife Polo; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1968-70 OCCUPATION: Lawyer; deputy city prosecutor; Secret Service agent POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 980 South 72nd Street, Omaha...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The fact that [the President's] long-term defense plan is dramatically underfunded has become the most open secret in Washington...
They're kids' movies without much blood, so not many Harvard players saw either one. However, Adams did acknowledge that it is possible to pirouette with hockey skates, because in D-1, the girl on the team scores a goal on the super-secret pirouette-in-the-slot play. Score one for realism, at least...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The controversy over foreign donations to the Democratic Party deepened Thursday with the release of Secret Service logs showing that former Democratic fundraiser John Huang had attended 65 White House meetings, some of which lasted for hours. That the records show that Huang visited the White House much more often and for longer periods of time than previously acknowledged by the Clinton Administration only served to further raise questions about possible links between Huang's visits and subsequent donations from Asian sources. News of the visits prompted Republican demands that President Clinton explain just what Huang was doing...