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...French embassy compound in Phnom-Penh, staffed only by a vice consul and a cipher clerk, was jammed with about 400 French citizens, some 400 Cambodians who claim French blood and about two dozen foreign journalists and representatives of international organizations. According to officials in Paris, sanitary conditions within the refuge were poor, intestinal disease was rife and there were serious shortages of food, water and medicine...
...entry of Soviet warheads in the Pacific. But so far as is known, U.S. experts have never had the opportunity to run their hands over a Soviet nuclear warhead, or look inside. Nor, presumably, have U.S. cryptographers ever had the chance to examine the construction of a Soviet cipher machine or to read Soviet code books...
...intelligence community has its own special enthusiasms. Aboard the sub were cipher machines and Soviet code manuals; provided they were stored in watertight safes, those manuals might still be legible. "It would be an absolutely unique, unprecedented opportunity to capture an entire Soviet code room," said a ranking U.S. intelligence expert. "We have never before had access to the Soviets' top-secret cryptographic equipment or to any individual who had worked inside one of their code rooms...
...ground in invoking public opinion to buttress a view that most experts - ranging from his own in the White House to even those in the automobile industry who will be hurt by such an increase - now believe is wrong. A President who simply followed public sentiment would be a cipher in the office, as Harry Truman recognized: "It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts. It is right and wrong, and leadership...
...play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...