Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embattled correspondents in Elisabethville at one point formally protested against the "censorship and duplicity" of the U.N. operation. On the other side of the Congo, Jon Randal covered events in the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, and was only in brief contact with Smith once, before a weak radio signal flickered...
...according to Pravda, was the U.S. embassy's Russian-speaking physician. Air Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another embassy staffer, Richard Carl Jacob, 26, who, though only a secretary-archivist, was in reality, claimed Pravda, a graduate of a special U.S. spy school. The paper even carried "authentic"' photographs of the "spies...
Judging from the mood at the U.N. and in Washington, Tshombe will have plenty of other opportunities to signal his displeasure in coming weeks, for a showdown is rapidly shaping up. "Either the U.N. brings Tshombe to reason," fumed Robert K. A. Gardiner, top U.N. official in the Congo, "or it may as well get out right away. The longer we delay, the more we bring the U.N. into contempt." And, he might have added, the closer the U.N. moves to bankruptcy. It is already $76 million in the red from its 2½-year effort to reunify the Congo...
...Cuba, more dignified electronic snooper planes circle the island. Some, with their bulky radar antennas, look like a fish that has just swallowed a turtle but their sensitive radar pictures sometimes reveal things that photographs miss. Other snoopers are loaded with electronic black boxes" that can record every electronic signal emanating from Cuba-from mambo music to messages for Moscow. No ground-based radar can search the sky without being recorded. Even hand-carried walkie-talkies can be heard by the bug ears...
Most European drivers on principle ignore the traffic laws, which they regard as an abridgment of their uncivil rights. However, they heed one caution signal: the red-and-white license plates of a car or truck from Belgium. Alone among Western European nations, Belgium does not issue drivers' licenses, give traffic instruction in its schools, or even demand that car owners show rudimentary knowledge of the rules of the road...