Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics. But the mood of students, intellectuals and much of the middle class had soured on the Diaz government's authoritarianism. On Oct. 2 some 10,000 people gathered at Tlatelolco Square. Late in the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers hidden in , the Aztec ruins opened fire, while secret-police agents in the crowd drew pistols and began making arrests. That night army vehicles carried the bodies away. No one knows how many died. Some estimate 300; others say 500. The government admitted to only...
...main contribution -- and it was immense -- was the protection of the biggest secret of the war: the fact that the British, with the help of the Poles, had broken the German code; they could read Hitler's mail. The information gathered through the Ultra secret helped the R.A.F., for example, defeat the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and enabled Montgomery to overpower Rommel in the North African desert...
...things that went blam! in the night: Fatal Attraction, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Predator. Oh, there were cop comedies (Beverly Hills Cop II, the No. 1 hit, and Stakeout and Dragnet) and a devil comedy (The Witches of Eastwick) and an oddly amoral Michael J. Fox comedy (The Secret of My Success -- sort of Wall Street for the Smurf set). But all these films traded in physical or emotional degradation; they left an acrid aftertaste. One began to wonder how long Hollywood could continue to cash in on its own and the nation's cynicism...
...Gorbachev still enjoys an occasional drink)) and usually talk politics. Khrushchev's report on the crimes of the Stalinist era had recently appeared. The entire country was still reeling from shock." Maximov and others of Gorbachev's generation, however, remember the late 1950s as an exciting time. Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin at the 20th Communist Party Congress in 1956 briefly opened the way to a much freer atmosphere. It was a false dawn. Repression resumed a few years later. To this day, however, educated Soviets of Gorbachev's generation, whose political attitudes were formed then...
...What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget...