Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expecting too much," said Peter C. Warsaw '72, a music instructor. "Those [secret service] guys are certainly from a different planet. They take you back to the age of nine when you played cops and robbers and took it seriously...But once Bush stepped on the scene, it was very down to earth...
...then, as a graduate student in Milan, he writes a doctoral thesis on the Knights of the Temple, a medieval order of warrior-monks formed in the 12th century and suppressed by the Pope in the 14th, who have vanished into a spiraling legend. Francis Bacon was a secret Templar, according to some spuriously authoritative sources; so, according to others, were Columbus, Mozart and Hitler...
Ullman said that an order to tap a phone wouldremain secret until the investigation wasconcluded. Ullmann also suggested that federalauthorities, such as the FBI, would havejurisdiction over this type of an investigation...
Krenz is also regarded with suspicion by many because of his connections with the Stasi, or secret police. Few citizens seem persuaded that Krenz had a true change of heart when he ordered police forces to stand back during the demonstrations that continue to spread like a brush fire, last week drawing 100,000 people into the streets of Leipzig. Many point instead to his comments on recent trips to China and West Germany, during which he expressed support for the Beijing leadership's crackdown on the pro-democracy movement...
...venerable history. It was first adopted within the CIA in 1972 by former director Richard Helms. "It was bad policy for the U.S. to go around assassinating foreign leaders," Helms explains now. "Not only for moral reasons but also because in the U.S. nothing can be kept secret for very long." He was right. During the following few years, a drumbeat of press stories and congressional investigations disclosed past attempts by the CIA to kill Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba, Cuba's Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. Though apparently none of these plots succeeded, President Gerald Ford included...