Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carre. A missing embassy official, stolen secret files, and the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life in Bonn are all part of the puzzle in this novel of suspense and political intrigue...
...minor student take-over at the conservative Santa Barbara University of California campus October 10 had prompted a secret threat by Ronald Reagan to settle the dispute by bringing in the National Guard if the Administration did not remove the demonstrators within a short time. By nightfall the Santa Barbara administrators had agreed to the small militant band's requests. The students left the administration building shaking their heads in disbelief at the administration's acquiescence...
...Agency has received as part of an experimental urban beautification program, one can't help but suspect the city is really trying to drive the hippies away for good by giving them too much of their own medicine. If the attempts stay this tepid, boredom may become Boston's secret weapon...
...trio in a modern perspective and yet do them justice, Hofstadter does not evade such criticism. He is often at lis best when throwing a few darts of his own. Beard's rendering of the Constitutional Convention, he suggests, makes the proceedings look like the secret and conspiratorial work of tycoons carving up some new banana republic...
...scene is the "recent future" in Bonn, a time of Britain's critical attempt to negotiate her way into the Common Market. Leo Harting, a minor official in the British embassy, has disappeared with secret files that could ruin the negotiations. Alan Turner, a counterespionage agent reminiscent of the half-burnt-out, seedy Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves...