MEXICO CITY -- The number of bodies discovered at a clandestine burial ground in western Mexico has reportedly risen to 62, and the digging continues.
In the last several decades, scandals erupted when it was found that cemeteries were used as clandestine dumping grounds.
Reports of the number of bodies found in clandestine burial grounds around the area range from 300-500.Federal forensic police in Mexico City are still studying the charred remains to determine exactly how many were killed.
But for almost everyone of any age, the cold war seems in retrospect somewhat nebulous: a war without a clearly defined beginning or end, when much of the action was clandestine and the ground rules were obscure; a war of mist and fog, perhaps.
During the cold war, American and Soviet military forces used nuclear batteries to power satellites in space and spy devices and clandestine radio gear on the ground.
The transformation, evident in an offensive late last month that chased many of Colonel Qaddafi's forces from Misurata's center to its outskirts, is in part the result of a hidden side of this lopsided ground war: a clandestine network of rebel workshops, where these makeshift weapons have been designed, assembled and pushed out.
The equation used has potential in the analysis of both cemetery and clandestine burials, since it allows ground temperature to be calculated from ambient air temperature figures, for a variety of depths, soil types and vegetation conditions.
The former rivals made progress in their search for common ground during a clandestine hour-long meeting at the home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif).
The operation wasn't imminent, but the senators opposed even drawing up a plan for it on the curious grounds that any attempted clandestine operation against General Noriega might cause his death.
Yes, there is something between indictments and cruise missiles -- a middle ground of covert action and clandestine operations -- and these options should be kept on the table.
