Word: secretes
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...been a year of jolting change for Mordechai Vanunu. Until last November he had worked as a technician in Israel's top-secret nuclear research center at Dimona in the Negev desert. Then Vanunu, 32, was dismissed from his job, ostensibly as part of a government cost-cutting move. He left Israel last spring on a vacation trip that took him to Greece, Bangkok and finally Sydney, Australia, where he reportedly converted to Christianity. Then he and a shadowy Colombian journalist hit upon a plan: they would sell Vanunu's inside account of Israel's nuclear defense program, never before...
...purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria, made a secret visit to Damascus on Saturday, evidently to arrange the details of Jacobsen's release. "This is very typical of the Syrians," said a high-ranking observer in Israel. "They realized that they made a blunder of international proportions, and they are looking for something big to remedy...
Waite's mission was a secret until he called the Beirut office of the Associated Press on Friday to tell a reporter that negotiations "appear to be moving." Then he added cryptically, " You keep an eye, just keep an eye." Waite left Beirut late Friday by U.S. helicopter for Cyprus. Dozens of reporters quickly set up watch at the Larnaca airport on the island, and in the absence of any hard information, rumors about a hostage deal began sweeping through the Middle East. Seven thousand miles away, campaigning for Republican candidates in Washington State and aware of the possibility...
Repentance is set in Georgia, the southern republic that was home to both Stalin and his dreaded secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria. Stalin never appears in the movie, but the main character, a local tyrant, is easily recognizable as Beria. Under his rule, people are arbitrarily arrested and then disappear. In one flashback, a woman searching for news of her missing husband hears about a delivery of logs carved with the names and addresses of prisoners. The woman searches in vain for her husband's name. Nearby another woman finds her loved one's name and caresses...
...secret? Hard work...