Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...
Last week, four key participants in the Iran-contra affair, including Lt. Colonel Oliver North and former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, were indicted for their role in the secret maneuverings that led to selling arms to the Ayatollah and funneling funds to the rebels in Nicaragua. The indictments, one hopes, will do what the dramatic hearings on the affair failed to do: make it clear that crimes were committed and that the Constitution was bypassed...
...thing, neither the Pakistanis nor the Soviet-backed Afghan regime was even hinting that the slipped deadline would provoke a walkout from the talks. For another, the Soviet representative at the negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Nikolai Kozyrev, revealed that his government and the U.S. are conducting intensive and highly secret discussions on Afghanistan in Moscow and Washington. The ever persistent Cordovez has privately predicted that the bargaining could drag on. Summed up Noorani: "The important date is not the 15th of March; it's the 15th...
...Adviser Robert McFarlane continued. He became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...have stuff in our labs that may not see the light of day for years. Because we haven't patented it, does that mean it's not worthy science?" Also, companies often decide against registering an important invention with the Patent Office in order to keep it secret. Once a product or process receives a patent, it becomes public knowledge...