Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...miscalculation, like that of so many other Western correspondents, was to focus on the dissidents who protested in public and largely to ignore the disaffected millions of Soviet citizens who went through the motions of their jobs while seething with resentment. That "hidden constituency" for reform even included young Communist Party officials who saw that the society was as decrepit as its bemedaled leader, Leonid Brezhnev...
...into possible links between the clandestine networks and episodes of right-wing terrorism during the past 20 years. In Rome, Admiral Fulvio Martini, head of military intelligence, testified before a parliamentary committee. Italy's paramilitary group, dubbed Gladio (Sword), had 622 members and 139 stockpiles of arms and explosives hidden around the country, Martini said. When the caches were gathered up in 1972, he added, 10 were found empty. One of them had contained eight kilos of plastic explosive, leading left-wing politicians to voice suspicion that the plastic had been used for the neofascist terrorism that plagued Italy...
...Sung or his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Il. Martial music is piped in throughout the country, even in the bus taking passengers from airplane to terminal; by daybreak, when workers march to their jobs, a fast, furious female voice is already shouting exhortations from a hidden amplifier in the street...
...HIDDEN AGENDA. This contentious melodrama blames British intelligence for everything from political murders in Northern Ireland to sabotage of the Wilson and Heath governments. But even conspiracy buffs may find it hard to be stirred by Ken Loach's dour direction. Paranoia deserves better than this...
...confusion. If the President has been clear about his fundamental goal, his shifting messages about how to achieve it have bewildered many. Yet ambiguity is an essential part of diplomacy in managing a crisis this complex. Especially when dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible threat of waging it, and the only way to make...