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When Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly resigned in 1976 and left No. 10 Downing Street to the late James Callaghan, people became suspicious: had he been forced out by some secret service plot concerning South Africa?
When the opposite was proven and a secret document was found in her possession, she had to go.
The German-Soviet non-aggression treaty, the so-called Hitler-Stalin pact, concluded in August 1939, had been supplemented by a secret appendix dividing the border states Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania into spheres of interest for the two parties.
It sends drones and secret forces into sovereign countries without their approval.
Why the EU has not become more engaged in the Western Balkans – a region where it can make all the difference by supporting economic and administrative modernization and infrastructure projects to link the region to the Union’s industrial centers – remains the secret of the European Commission and the member states.
Around a third of the 1.4 million people with “top secret” US security clearances are contractors, according to the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence.
James Murdoch, Rupert’s son and Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s European and Asian operations, authorized a secret payment of £1 million ($1.6 million) to buy the silence of hacking victims.
It was, "in reality," a pretext to return to see X, and thereby to reward my secret affection.
China, for its part, has made no secret of its intention to establish the renminbi as a credible alternative to the dollar.
Soon, too soon, I wanted myself to be part of that family of word wizards, those secret relatives of mine.
The artist remains, no matter how childish it may seem, a secret laborer of love.
The days and nights ahead will be difficult, and the secret presence of Russian troops will make them all the more dangerous.
Saddam's numerous secret police contain many clerks, executioners, and torturers, but not many trained soldiers.
The lifecycle of companies should teach governments that the secret of eternal youth is constant innovation – seizing opportunities and behaving like the dynamic, entrepreneurial companies that are defining today’s world and shaping its future.
It is no secret that the US and Europe, combined, spend more than $250 billion of public funds annually on R&D to maintain their leading positions.
In contrast to this paranoid version of the past is a past that is buried under silence and propaganda; a past that is simply not dealt with and remains like a secret wound that can become reopened at any moment.
Upholding the Asian OrderNEW DELHI – China’s ambition to reshape the Asian order is no secret.
Instead, many fear that what has happened in the past will happen again: secret negotiations, arm twisting, and the display of brute economic power by the US and Europe--and by special interests in the advanced countries--aimed at ensuring that the interests of the rich are protected.
The Fall of the Language CurtainTen years ago the body of Imre Nagy, the political leader of the failed Hungarian revolution of 1956, was exhumed from a secret grave for a public and honorable reburial.
Under Communism, the language used in politics and public life, even literature, was like a secret code.
Reigniting Emerging-Economy GrowthHONG KONG – It is no secret that emerging economies are facing serious challenges, which have undermined their once-explosive growth and weakened their development prospects.
A decade of US secret and not-so-secret wars, drone attacks, and covert operations is enough.
For example, it was no secret that accumulating a lot of credit card debit could hurt one’s creditworthiness.
But Venezuela shows what happens when prudence is frowned upon and fiscal information is treated as a state secret.
But secret deals with Media/Most are but the tip of the iceberg.
We tend to think of diplomacy as something carried out in secret; sometimes, however, it is better to hide in plain sight.
Furthermore, Global Witness has exposed secret transactions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which lucrative mining assets were sold off to shell companies linked to a friend of President Joseph Kabila at prices well below market value.
But, all too often, self-serving politicians deny citizens their right to benefit from their country’s natural resources, using opaque or secret transactions to steal or siphon off assets.
Some well-informed people believe that those funds were used to kick off Pakistan’s secret nuclear program.
In the back of their minds, however, Russians also hold a secret fear about Putin.
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