Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Seal of the U.S. when he was Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. (President Eisenhower disclosed that bug years later during the U-2 spyplane crisis.) Says Kennan: "For half a century at least we've gone on the theory that the premises we occupied in Moscow were not safe unless special precautions were taken...
There is hot disagreement over whether any part of the new U.S. embassy can ever be made safe for anything except the most mundane conversations. No one seems to think that all the bugs in the building will ever be found. To do so might require conducting what one expert calls a "destructive search" -- which means nothing less than tearing the building apart. But some optimists believe that at least some rooms can be made secure, mostly by shielding them in copper, lead or other materials that foil electromagnetic emissions...
...that summit, as Hyland relates in his new book Mortal Rivals (Random House; $19.95), that the Soviets offered the Americans a special safe for their secret papers, assuring the visitors it was a reliable model. The Americans for once said no. But some of the veterans of that diplomatic foray now wonder if the offer, such an apparent snare, was not really a kind of high-level gesture of hospitality. Soviets spy on Soviets more than on Americans. And since the Soviets wanted the meeting to be a success, the top apparatchiks may have been trying to shield their visitors...
...Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe, a wife and new mother suddenly realizes exactly what she now owes to her husband and child: "I know that I must live my life now knowing it is not my own. I can keep them from so little; it must be the shape of my life to keep them...
...these poisons, the river harbors at least 28 varieties of viruses and an unknown number of bacterial strains, including typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and the three known types of polio virus. According to Gruenberg, bacteria levels routinely reach 1,000 times the maximum level set by the EPA as safe for bodily contact. Though no one uses the water for drinking or irrigation, infected drifts of foam from Mexican laundry detergents are sometimes scattered by the wind, and Cottrell fears an epidemic is inevitable. At greatest risk are illegal immigrants, who occasionally venture into the polluted suds to swim under...