Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE ARE THOSE nations which, by the very nature of their regimes, seem to be grist for self-styled international code decipherers. Kremlinology, the effort to analyze the internal power structure of the Soviet Union by use of various symbols, such as who was standing next to whom in what photograph, who received a favorable review in this or that Soviet academic journal, or who accompanied Brezhnev on his Eastern European tour, is not by any means an exact science. But it is a legitimate science, in that the American media recognizes such speculation as worthwhile, and newspapers...
...recognize Israel's right to exist. This method of studying international developments is not entirely without validity, and in the case of the PLO is even necessary, since it is not particularly likely that Arafat will, in the near future, issue a point-by-point peace proposal. But code deciphering has clearly gotten out of hand. It is possible to go to Middle East seminars and encounter groups of people who consider the Israel recognition question a false issue, having long ago been settled, and raised now only as a lame justification for Israeli intransigence. And the citation...
...impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept overnight in New Hampshire...
...driver is a metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched. This is the hack's code: be deaf and you will hear everything; be blind and you will see everything. Travis does eventually learn the rules, but only after one last, desperate, misunderstood attempt to remake the world in his image...
...Union claim that only with 2600 amendments would the bill be palatable. S-1 is so packed with repressive measures that it should not even be debated on the senate floor. The bill should be scrapped immediately and a new crime commission established to draw up a just criminal code...