Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infamous incident, at least 800 Palestinians were killed in September by Lebanese Christian militiamen who had been allowed by Israeli military authorities to enter two refugee camps in Beirut. Last week the commission sent formal letters of warning to Prime Minister Begin, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and six ranking military and intelligence officials. The commission advised each man that he was "liable to be harmed" by the results of the inquiry and that he had 15 days in which to request permission to reappear before the commission to offer further testimony. Each recipient was also informed...
...learned about the atrocities until late Saturday, when he heard a BBC newscast. Another witness last week was Communications Minister Mordechai Zipori, who testified that he was told on Friday morning, Sept. 17, that killing was going on in the camps, and that he so informed Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
...Lebanon, Shamir insisted that the 5,000 to 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas still in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley should leave before any Israeli withdrawal began. But he did not totally reject the idea that the P.L.O. might depart at the same time as a mutual Syrian-Israeli withdrawal. Among the security arrangements Shamir did insist on was establishment of a 40-km security zone north of the Israeli border as a buffer against future P.L.O. incursions...
...Stanford coding system was cracked by Adi Shamir, 30, an Israeli expert in the branch of mathematics known as complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work...
...public-key concept may survive Shamir's master stroke. Secret codes, like fine wines, tend to improve with age. The competing code system Shamir co-authored at M.I.T. remains, for the moment, uncracked. But the discovery of so basic a flaw in the Stanford scheme is no small matter. When public-key codes first started appearing in scientific journals, Admiral Bobby Inman, then head of the National Security Agency and until recently deputy director of the CIA, worried in public about the Soviets' and other hostile nations' learning to develop uncrackable codes simply by studying published...