Like many of the remaining vestiges of the Underground Railroad, a clandestine network of safe houses and trails that helped slaves flee the South before the Civil War, the church is awash in history and one step away from ruin.
Lacking access to broadcasters and the media within Afghanistan means that her message "for women's rights, for human rights, against injustice and occupation," can be spread only by telephone, by clandestine meetings in safe houses and through a poster campaign.
The assassins were given access to the same clandestine network of safe-houses and agents that Rade Malobabić used for the infiltration of weapons and operatives into Austria-Hungary.
Furthermore, the benefits of legal abortion extend well beyond reduced health system costs, even with potential shifts in abortion caseloads from clandestine, unsafe environments to safe services in public hospitals and health centers.
One former C.I.A. officer who served with the new clandestine chief called him "a safe choice".
Mr. Kay's report last October cited "a clandestine network of laboratories and safe houses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service" that contained material suitable for research into chemical and biological weapons.
Induced abortions were sometimes perceived as unsafe, when carried out under clandestine circumstances, and sometimes as safe, when carried out in a hospital by skilled personnel.
Whereas most journalists (foreign or local) visit Chechnya fleetingly, Mr Jagielski has lived there for repeated periods of many weeks, staying with Chechen families, slipping in and out of clandestine meetings with guerrilla commanders in safe houses under the noses of Russian troops.The book brings to life the danger, squalor and misery of daily life in Chechnya with almost unbearable clarity.
In addition, the anti-rave legislation is likely to push events toward clandestine sites, where conditions will be less safe, supervision less responsible and emergency help less prompt.
Whatever that jolly crew of madcaps and bon vivants was fighting, it did not resemble the actual cold war, and I think it's safe to say that the clandestine derring-do performed by the earnest and muscular young protagonists of "Alias," "24," "MI-5" and "Threat Matrix" is just about as fanciful.
