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...fighting, in the wooded hills and tilled valleys of a scenic region called the Viet Bac, was shrouded behind military secrecy on both sides and by a cloud cover that thwarted satellite observation. Hanoi issued regular self-serving communiques; Peking's announcements were so cryptic as to be meaningless. Said one Hong Kong observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that...
...some of the stranger, not-so-cutsey offbeat things that were occuring in this country, you can see that these undercurrents were very strong, heralding whirlpools ahead. One of the best examples of this is the strange phenomenon of James Dean. Dean, who has survived in a few cryptic songs and three movies, does not seem to have made of an impact on the collective memory of the '50s, but at the time his impact on a generation of people growing up in America was quite strong. Like Brando, Dean's characters were vaguely discontented with the way things were...
...Wednesday, when Vance phoned to report that the Middle East peace talks had hit serious snags, Carter told him in cryptic language?even though he was using a scrambler phone?that the agreement with Peking was almost set. The President referred to it as "the matter that only five of us are involved in." After several more exchanges of cables with Peking, Brzezinski informed Carter at about 1 p.m. Thursday that work on the communique was finished. The President smiled and said, "Good deal...
...fall, the ability of lust and indolence to dissolve a man's will--although the magnetic pull of the games of one-upmanship is clear enough. That doesn't mean that Sellars hasn't worked these things out in his own head--his synopsis the program is full of cryptic notes like "A Nixon cameo," and "Enobarbus is Shakespeare," and, frankly, I don't have the vaguest idea what some of them mean. Maybe nothing and maybe everything...
...should Ceauşescu be sniping so earnestly at Moscow just now? Some West German analysts, noting a cryptic Ceausescu reference to "counterrevolutionary elements" being stirred up elsewhere "to rise against their governments," speculate that he may have uncovered a Kremlin-backed plot against him. Whatever the cause, Ceauşescu's performance has been popular in Rumania, which probably cannot divert more resources to its military without further straining a weak economy that already produces the East bloc's lowest standard of living...