Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News of Sullivan's secret meeting broke in the Washington Post last week and gave credence to reports that the White House had been considering pardons for Iranscam's key players. Abshire maintained, however, that no deals were discussed with Sullivan. The lawyer, he said, "simply was making his case for his client...
...demands for reform than Husak was. In his first speech as party leader, Jakes used some of the "democratic" buzz words of the Soviet leader's reform campaign. In any case, there was little doubt that Jakes's selection had been vetted by the Kremlin. Gorbachev, who made little secret of his dislike of Husak, sent a congratulatory message to Jakes, predicting that his appointment would lead to the "further development and revival of Socialism on Czechoslovak soil." When the local party daily Rude Pravo published the Soviet message, however, it dropped the word revival, with its implied criticism...
However obscure Gorbachev was about his secret hardware, he left no doubt that the SDI issue was no longer an obstacle to an agreement on strategic cuts. This was a considerable concession from the Soviets, whose insistence on nipping Star Wars in the bud had led them to link SDI restrictions to the tentative wide-ranging agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit last year. Yet the Soviets have long pursued a tactic of linking and unlinking and then relinking SDI to other agreements; the idea is sure to come back to haunt a START agreement before the two leaders...
...third week of December. What does Christmas mean to me? That there's more than a negligible chance I might actually shop at Urban Outfitters, for one thing. Is there any other store in the free world that exists only to sell trinkets to people playing Secret Santa and too cheap to buy something really decent...
...hundred missiles will be given to Iran in a secret arms deal to win access to a warm-water port. The Iranians, the Soviet reasoning goes, will be so greedy for missiles, that they won't quibble over the removal of the nuclear warheads. The Soviets see this as a potential PR master-stroke that willprove once and for all that communists are smarter than we are--after all, we provided the Iranians with weapons that really worked...