Word: secretly
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Covert operations are supposed to be secret. But last week, word that George Bush had authorized a $3 million covert plan to topple Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega leaked out before the operation even got under way. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bush had authorized the CIA to recruit members of the Panamanian Defense Forces for an anti-Noriega revolt. In a change of policy, the Bush plan reportedly authorizes a coup even if Noriega is accidentally killed. Asked about the report, Bush said, "It wouldn't be covert if I even referred...
...trip when she and her twin-engine Lockheed Electra lost radio contact and vanished into legend. Since that time women have become commercial pilots, paratroopers and even astronauts. Yet the name of Amelia Earhart retains the power to intrigue. Did she assume a new identity? Was she on a secret reconnaissance mission? Did she get captured by the Japanese? Mary S. Lovell shrugs off these theories; her emphasis is on Earhart's life and accomplishments...
Although it is not known whether the Lampoon was involved in the attack, the semi-secret society has lobbied for the tree's removal for years. But the Parks and Forests Department has refused to take it away because it is full-grown and healthy...
...Communist Party Politburo resigned en masse, to be replaced by bodies in which reformers mingled with hard-liners. And that, supposedly, was only the start. On the same day that East Germany threw open its borders, Egon Krenz, 52, President and party leader, promised "free, general, democratic and secret elections," though there was no official word as to when. Could the Socialist Unity Party, as the Communists call themselves in East Germany, lose in such balloting? "Theoretically," replied Gunter Schabowski, the East Berlin party boss and a Politburo member...
...lead the way. Walt Disney, after all, created the genre, turning barnyard animals into superstars and a Sunday-supplement curiosity into the movie's most enduring subspecies. Bluth, a Disney renegade, showed his old masters that the cartoon possessed a social vitality for the '80s. Bluth's The Secret of NIMH was a parable on animal experimentation; An American Tail found much to say, endearingly, about melting-pot prejudice; The Land Before Time found love and death among the dinosaurs. Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature cartoon for the rescue...