Word: role
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...Complaint. Established in 1952 under the Secretary of Defense, NSA, like CIA, is an outgrowth of the nation's post-World War II effort to centralize, tighten and sharpen the role of U.S. intelligence in the cold war. Almost unknown to the public, NSA has clearly been more successful at warding off journalistic attention than its sister agency. It is symptomatic of the extreme secrecy shrouding NSA that its director, Lieut. General Marshall S. Carter, is a nonentity even to Washington insiders. Yet, like CIA's, the agency's tentacles reach deeply into the academic community...
Last week official Washington's attention focused on The Codebreakers, a 1,164-page tome written by David Kahn, a 37-year-old journalist and amateur cryptographer. It is perhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography and the security agency's role yet published. A tribute to Kahn's thoroughness-he took six years to write the book-is that NSA officials have been astounded by his knowledge of the agency's operations. "He's certainly done his homework," said one awed expert. Foggy Bottom and intelligence types, who have made the book...
...joint suzerainty of Spanish bishops and French rulers since the Middle Ages. None of the 46 French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could not resist the temptation to play the role of feudal sovereign, and last week he went off to examine his fief...
...reaction to Britain's first bid in 1963, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville did not flatly veto British membership. But before British entry could be considered, Couve said, Britain must first of all solve all its balance of payments problems and give up sterling's role as an international currency backed by a gold reserve. The pound, said Couve, must again become "a national currency like other national currencies, not subject to the uncertainties that it has known for the past 50 years." Couve then attained a new pinnacle in diplomatic doubletalk by adding that British...
...plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...