Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than ever, it was the year of the investigator, the unmasker of official secrets and official wrongdoing. The New York Times won its 38th prize, this time in the "public service" category, for publishing the Pentagon papers. Neil Sheehan, the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg gave the documents and...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's personal distaste for his Russian allies has long been one of the worst-kept secrets in the Arab world. Sadat is not given to making his private views public. But observers close to the Cairo scene report that Egyptian-Soviet relations are now at...
To the argument that an Administration needs a great deal of privacy to conduct its business properly, he says yes, "but not to pursue a course in private that is counter to public pronouncements." Some secrets remain sacrosanct to him. He would not print information about weapons technology, for instance...
Despite their new source of income, the Binghams were unable to get out of debt. A finance company threatened to report them to the police for selling a car before they had completed payment on it. Bingham was becoming desperate, and was eventually even driven to pawning the camera the...
After the trial, Maureen was by turns contrite, defiant and apologetic, with an unending supply of startling statements about the affair for newsmen. "My husband was an idiot to give himself up," she told the Daily Mail. She also declared that "I was the one who passed on information through...