Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Figure. Solzhenitsyn's arrest would be the cruel but logical culmination of a three-year effort by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, to fabricate a case against him based on Article 70 of the Russian criminal code. That article makes it a crime, punishable by seven years' imprisonment, for a writer deliberately to "disseminate slander" about the Soviet system in Russia or abroad. In order to build a case that could appear plausible in court, the KGB has planted Solzhenitsyn's forbidden manuscripts, together with spurious "authorizations," on unsuspecting Western publishers. Many Sovietologists believe that...
...help explain the causes of inflation and examine the question of whether full employment and stable prices can exist side by side. Meanwhile, Kathleen Cooil and Isabelle Kayaloff conducted their own interviews and spent hours in the library stacks uncovering, among other things, the fascinating tidbit that the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 2000 B.C.) contained the world's first known system of price control...
...weather satellite's photo of severe weather in the Bay of Bengal had been received in the East Pakistani capital of Dacca more than ten hours before the cyclone struck. A warning -moha bipod shonket (big danger coming)-was broadcast, but someone forgot to include a code number indicating the force of the expected storm...
...real dream was to die a hero's death for Japan. He was born Kimi-take Hiraoka, son of an aristocratic samurai family, and was imbued with a warrior code that apotheosized complete control over mind and body and loyalty to the Emperor. At 18, he felt an almost erotic fascination with the death that, he was certain, awaited him when he would be drafted. But his wish to die for the Emperor was thwarted by a weak body and a frail constitution...
...Abdel Hamid, when she doused him with a bowl of soup at a dinner before their divorce in 1957. Not so. The latest shock: Dina's decision to marry an Al-Fatah guerrilla. A week before the wedding, Hussein is reported to have surreptitiously sent the bridegroom, whose code name is "Salah," a present of some $25,000. There were rumors that the gift was intended to buy Salah either out of wedlock or out of the Palestine resistance. It did neither. When Dina and Salah took their vows, it was said that Al-Fatah took the money...