Word: signal
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...clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London reporter Helen Gibson. Major also lifted a ban on Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' visiting Britain and said all border crossings with the Republic of Ireland will be opened...
That information, coupled with W/1's November report, convinced some Pentagon intelligence experts that Americans might be at the camp. On Dec. 30, according to a CIA cable from Bangkok, a Thai signal unit called Team-213 alerted the Bangkok station that it had intercepted a radio message from a top Laotian military leader ordering American POWS to be flown from the southern province of Attopu to central Laos. In the same cable, the CIA dismissed the report as fabricated, on the grounds that Team-213 was poorly trained and had not made a tape of the intercept...
...satellite photo of the camp that showed a large "52" carved on the ground near the compound's perimeter. He thought it might mean B-52 for a bomber crew. Photo interpreters also pointed to what they believed was a "K," a standard distress signal pilots on the ground used, next to the 52. Other analysts who have seen the photo subsequently argue that the 52 was simply an accidental image, caused by shadow or vegetation. But a Feb. 23, 1981, DIA memo said satellites photographed the camp for a month, and the 52 was always visible in the same...
...conservative architect of German reunification succeeded in edging out the rival Social Democrats by just 10 seats, down from a comfortable 134-seat margin in the last round of voting four years ago. Says Van Voorst: the election was less a rebuke to Kohl's policies than a signal that voters felt he'd hogged center stage too long...
Queen Elizabeth II, clad in full-length fur and trademark pillbox hat, landed at Moscow's airport for the first-ever Russian visit by a reigning British monarch. The trip, proposed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a recent stay at Buckingham Palace, was widely billed as a signal that cold war tensions between the two nations are over. While the Queen -- still, technically, Britain's head of state -- won't be penning any treaties or declarations, TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the Pope-style stopover matters: "She doesn't say anything political, but the fact is, where...