Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years, the agency's Saigon station continued to send teams into North Vietnam even as evidence mounted that the North Vietnamese seemed always to know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents, managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they were being held. Still, when SOG, the Pentagon's Studies and Observations Group, took over Oplan-34A in 1964, it sent hundreds more commandos into North Vietnam during the next four years, even though the officers in charge of the program...
...Saddam had been demonstrating complete intransigence. While the Iraqis were complaining that they had no money for food and medicine, Saddam was building new and more lavish palaces for himself. Was he leaving the Jacuzzi out of the downstairs loo of a palace now and then as a subtle signal that he was a man who, in the end, knew the meaning of the word compromise? There was nothing in the newspapers to indicate that...
...friend back in Missouri also believes that anyone who wants to sound knowing in one of these discussions should use the word signal now and then. "I think Baghdad might be signaling us on this one," I can imagine myself saying at the Gulf task-force meeting. "He's showing us that he's willing to rethink his entire ear-amputation policy...
...today's decision would appear to put an end to anti-gay ordinances, Cole says conservative groups will probably look for ways to circumvent the ruling. "I wouldn't be surprised if right-wing groups try to find a different way to attack homosexuals," Cole says. "This will not signal an end to legislative and ballot initiatives attacking the civil rights of gays and lesbians. They will try and craft the laws to use different language than the court struck down." The ruling comes at a critical moment when a constitutional battle over another aspect of gay rights -->