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Meanwhile, life at San Clemente is far from spartan. Nixon has 33 Secret Service agents assigned to his protection. He is skittish about security, and his staff has complained-incorrectly-that Lady Bird Johnson has more guards (she has a dozen at most). When a news photographer snapped him with a telephoto lens from the distant window of a neighboring house, Nixon changed the route he takes to his office. "If they can get me with a telephoto lens, they can do the same with a scope on a rifle," he told aides. "I'm not going that...
...growing numbers of new three-story "super hooches," which bunk only three men to a room. BOQS, or Bachelor Officer Quarters, bear whimsical names like "Teahouse of the Anxious Moose"-moose being a corruption of the Japanese musume or girl. A recreation center has been developed to accompany the "spartan training" facility on Cheju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea; it offers sailing, scuba diving and duck and pheasant shooting. The division has even sponsored occasional all-night rock concerts, quaintly called "Gunstocks...
...against his will -in effect, imprisoned him without trial -in an unnamed CIA installation for about three years while the agency determined whether he was a genuine defector or a spy. According to the report, "for much of this time, the defector was held in solitary confinement under extremely spartan living conditions." Eventually, he was released and, despite his treatment, became a U.S. citizen. In another case, the panel reported, "a defector was physically abused, although not seriously injured." The report included no other details except that the CIA employee involved was fired...
...Spartan Regimes. Several observers, including Aron, feel that the general mood of the Continent reflects the bias of many Western European intellectuals against bourgeois society and in favor of the spartan regimes of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. In their eyes, the democratic societies of the West, despite their manifest freedoms, are associated with political corruption, economic crises, imported American tastes (by definition bad) and American values (by definition shallow). In contrast, Communist regimes are identified with social justice, economic security, cultural integrity and a bracing measure of discipline...
...period of time to realize reunification." Highly capitalistic and individualistic, the South will no doubt have to undergo some profound changes before it can be successfully assimilated into the socialist, collectivist society of the North. "The North fears the seductive life of the South, compared with the disciplined, austere, spartan life in the North," says one State Department Viet Nam specialist. "They do not want their people contaminated...