Word: codeword
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...real progress can be made unless both sides come to terms with these realities. This means that the P.L.O. will have to abandon its stated goal of a "democratic-secular state between the Jordan and the Sinai"--which is simply a codeword for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with another Arab state. Israel will have to abandon its claim that Palestinians already have a homeland in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And Arab governments should support negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in which both sides recognize each other's right to exist. Each party should pledge...
...boys in the airplane shoved the bales out of the side. One detail of the importers' operation, you see, involved a telephone call to a hotel in a famous south Florida resort on the same day the president of the United States was scheduled to visit. The codeword for the payload was "corpse," and so an alert operator smelled a plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane was in the air, it was already photographed and under constant radar and photographic surveillance. Which just goes to show James...