Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penchant for violent behavior. If the society in which they live sanctions primitive primal rites like cannibalism and clubbing each other, then their anger will probably take such unhindered, natural forms. If, however, the society is more cultured and "well-developed," violence will be channelled into more acceptable, covert forms of expression namely, athletics...
...transcripts were probably purged of expletives and dialogue which would reflect sources and methods of intelligence, or possible covert interaction with the Cubans, he said...
...really at open war" in the area, he says. "There's nothing covert about it when the CIA takes public credit for blowing up airport facilities in Nicaragua...
...concern by military means: a fleet of U.S. warships has been conducting "readiness exercises" off Nicaraguan shores, while 3,500 U.S. troops have assembled across the border in Honduras for the largest series of war games ever held in Central America. Most important, the U.S. is continuing to provide covert support to thousands of Nicaraguan insurgents, known as contras (counterrevolutionaries), whose hit-and-run attacks along Nicaragua's northern and southern borders have, according to the Sandinistas, claimed more than 700 lives. President Reagan has justified U.S. support for the contras by accusing the Sandinistas of having "betrayed" their...
...busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras step up their attacks, Sandinista forces would pursue them to the border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. If so, the "covert" war could become even more overt than it already...