Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts now play down the potential value of obtaining a code machine and possibly a legible code book. They point out that code machines, Western and Russian models alike, are constructed in a manner that enables the operator to reset circuits and insert new encoding or decoding disks at random so that yesterday's code may give scant clue to today's. Even so, influential U.S. cryptologists at the time believed that an examination of the Russian equipment would increase the possibility that the U.S. might finally succeed in breaking Soviet codes, a feat that...
...work and collectors were buying it for thousands of dollars, it was perhaps only in the hope that the magic moment, the shock of recognition, would come to them. They must have felt there was something profound there, as they must have when they looked at all the other random splotches of paint, stripes, near-empty canvases and soup cans of the fifties and sixties...
...ground, 50 paratroopers in battle gear, who had been unloaded earlier from eight Alouette helicopters, took up positions around the barracks, at neighboring apartment buildings and along the highway. As two helicopter gunships whirled overhead loosing random bursts of fire, the paratroopers advanced, after a fashion, on the barracks. The Shootout lasted scarcely an hour. One infantryman was killed, and 18 were wounded...
...press conference described the raid as "the wrong way to try and resolve the difficult problems in the Middle East." In Wales, where he had stopped off at Cardiff for ceremonies honoring British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan's longtime parliamentary service to the city, Kissinger deplored "a random and senseless act which reminds us once more of the tragic dimensions of this conflict." It underlined, he added, "the importance of making progress toward peace...
HEALING: A DOCTOR IN SEARCH OF A MIRACLE by WILLIAM A. NOLEN, M.D. 308 pages. Random House...