Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release, Bronfman must pay $4.6 million, and the money must be paid in cash, with no more than half of the bills in an "uncirculated" condition and at least 200,000 of them in $10 denomination. The kidnapers would use the code name "Raven" in making contact with the family and would disguise their voices with speech-altering devices. To signal that the ransom was ready for delivery, the Bronfman family should place a personal ad, signed "Fred Bollard," in New York newspapers...
...evidence of a variety of extra-legal activities practiced by the FBI. The bureau is said to have maintained special schools to train agents in the techniques of the "bag job," a euphemism for breaking and entering. The graduates-lockpickers, burglars and a few safecrackers-managed to steal some code books from foreign embassies. For this they received "incentive awards" ranging from...
Condoms? Befuddled brains adjusted to the first-ever condom commercial on U.S. television. Viewers grabbed their phones. The KNTV switchboard was jammed all night. Unlike the vast majority of stations around the country, KNTV does not adhere to the National Association of Broadcasters' stuffy code of ethics, which bans over-the-counter contraceptive commercials. But it had aired the Trojans ad only after testing it on the station's own employees, including a Jew, a Catholic and a Baptist, all of whom found it inoffensive. After the viewer protests, however, KNTV General Sales Manager Jack Yearwood pulled...
...countermeasures "to deny us information we need and have come to count on." Dr. Hall refuses to name a specific example, but other top-level sources cite one. On May 25, the New York Times revealed that U.S. submarines, specially equipped with electronic spying gear and operating under the code name Holystone, had been monitoring Soviet missile activities for 15 years, sometimes within Russian territorial waters. As a result of that story, U.S. officials say, the Kremlin stopped Holystone by planting some underwater mines and erecting jamming and shielding devices around the targets. The Times report infuriated U.S. intelligence officials...
...government's emergency package by a vote of 264 to 54, with all but five Tories abstaining The plan limits pay increases to a maximum of $13.20 a week, blocks the use of government funds to finance excessive wage settlements by the nationalized industries, and uses the price code to prevent private employers from passing on the cost of high settlements to the consumer. It also proposes strict cash limits on public spending...