Word: coded
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...itself the Titan's three-satellite payload -- code-named Pacea -- was not indispensable to current intelligence operations. The solar-powered satellites, each about as big as a midsize car, are part of a continuing surveillance program called Classic Wizard, which is designed to track ships at sea, especially those from the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. If the three satellites had been deployed as planned into a triangle in space, their electronic sensing devices would have calculated the position of ships on the basis of radio and radar transmissions. But the U.S. has two such systems...
...study of Maya writing has become a coequal -- and sometimes competitive -- path of inquiry. For some reason it has attracted more than its share of amateurs. In the early 1970s, "discoveries came at the pace of a raging prairie fire," writes Coe in his latest book, Breaking the Maya Code. Former University of South Alabama art teacher Linda Schele burst into the epigraphical world. On a 1970 visit to Mexico, she was mesmerized by the ruins at Palenque. Three years later, she was accomplished enough to collaborate with two others in a mind-boggling feat of decipherment: during a conference...
Myers asked the council to investigate possible health code violations and to insure the work was being done "within the letter...
...Nunn had waged in the hearings. While sparing the President's distinction between orientation and conduct, it eliminated even the faintest possibility that a soldier could admit gay orientation, in public or private. It dropped a clause promising "equal enforcement" among straights as well as gays of a military code of conduct that forbids acts of sodomy. And there was one major difference: although Nunn did not return to the pre-January policy of asking recruits their sexual orientation, his bill left that option open to some future Defense Secretary "as he considers appropriate." Said a Pentagon official who earlier...
...rights groups bitterly oppose because it would still allow discharges for homosexual conduct on or off base. Though the proposed plan would discourage military investigations to identify homosexuals, it would generally allow soldiers and sailors to identify themselves as gay only to chaplains, lawyers and doctors. The military code would be revised, slightly, to make gay conduct rather than homosexual status incompatible with military service...