Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first months of liberty, Walesa had kept a fairly low profile, but the April meeting and its subsequent wide publicity appeared to signal a new defiance on the labor chief's part. "It seems to indicated that Walesa is ready and willing to take a more active part in the resistance," observed Tadeusz Szafar, a Polish visiting scholar at the Russian Research Center. "I don't know what it achieves for him, but it's certainly not permission to go to Harvard...
...could hold it. Did it mean a defter and softer touch in Central America? If so, would the White House and Pentagon hard-liners keep hands off for long? Shultz has never publicly differed from the Reagan attitude toward the region, so all of the fuss last week may signal no substantial policy change. "The policy is taking a hell of a beating in terms of credibility," observes a senior State Department official. "To enhance the credibility it was thought that a change in people would be helpful." With such able people ending up sacrificial lambs, it seems that...
...People's Revolutionary Army, declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments was Cuba, via Nicaragua...
Just after Schaufelberger honked his horn to signal his friend, a small van pulled up beside him. A man described by witnesses as tall, young and well dressed stepped out and coolly fired four shots through the open window of Schaufelberger's car. His auto lurched forward, crashing against a parked car. Urging bystanders to remain calm, the assassin casually reached into the Maverick and turned off the ignition; then he and his accomplices drove off in their van. Schaufelberger, who had been hit in the head with three small-caliber bullets, was pronounced dead on arrival...
...South Africa, the raid marked the first time its Impalas had been used to raid suspected A.N.C. strongholds. For the A.N.C., the Pretoria bomb blast that provoked the raid seemed to signal the start of an ugly new phase in its struggle against apartheid, South Africa's official policy of racial discrimination...