Word: guardedness
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Metropolitan Police Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become...
Within the guarded privacy of the Vatican, there are no better kept secrets than those concerning the workings of the Holy See's bank, the Institute per le Opere di Religione (Institute for Religious Works). In a church that is nearly 2,000 years old, the Vatican bank is...
The Administration was satisfied by this response. The White House issued a statement declaring, "We welcome President Brezhnev's willingness to begin negotiations." Reagan was less guarded. "Do you have any reply to Brezhnev?" a reporter asked. "Not that you'd want to print," the President shot back...
The diplomatic negotiations had dragged on for five long weeks, featuring secret meetings at carefully guarded locations, as second-echelon officials delicately probed for areas of possible compromise. Finally, both sides agreed that the moment for deadline was nigh, and a summit session of the two leaders was arranged. Three...
British warships led by the aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible had nosed into position around the Falklands. The big ships, guarded by antisubmarine frigates and nuclear-powered hunter submarines, were as close as 90 miles to shore, while destroyers interposed themselves between the islands and the mainland to set up...