Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROSENBERG TRIAL. The US monopoly on atomic power ended in 1949 when Americans learned to their dismay that the Soviets had cracked the secret. They suspected that spies were to blame. In April of 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the defendants. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb... has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea ... and who knows but that millions more of innocent' people...
...year 1956 was a complicated time in the Soviet-American relationship. Earlier that year, in a secret session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev had delivered a three-hour speech debunking Stalin. He had been, said Khrushchev, a treacherous, lying, murdering paranoid. But the Hungarian tragedy demonstrated that Khrushchev was not going to dismantle Stalin's empire...
...reopened the universities closed last June. In presenting his new Cabinet to Parliament, he detailed elements of a program that included support for Iran's Arab neighbors, "especially the Palestinians," and a ban on future oil shipments to Israel and South Africa. He promised to disband SAVAK, the secret police, and announced that he had released 266 political prisoners and would compensate families of the more than 2,000 Iranians who had been killed in the months of rioting...
Alexander took the oath of office Wednesday, three days ahead of schedule, in a hastily-arranged ceremony that was kept secret from Blanton until it was already underway. Alexander said he took office early to prevent Blanton from releasing any more prisoners...
...patrol city streets at night, but thousands of protesters defied the 9 o'clock curfew to go to rooftops and shout their chilling chant: "The Shah must die." Even whispering that slogan would once have provoked a visit by a SAVAK agent. Names, addresses and phone numbers of secret police agents are now posted on city walls. Some parents have taken their children to grisly museums of past horrors: two houses in the capital that were allegedly used by SAVAK to torture victims. Along with the fighting that has now touched virtually every corner of the land has come...