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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday m Arch 10.1989 author says Britain knew Pearl Harbor was targeted world briefs London a Britain had cracked enough Jap anese codes in know the Surprise attack on Pearl har Bor was imminent but did no Ell the americans the co author of an unpublished Book said thursday. The work code breaker extraordinary speculates that Britain s prime minister Winston Churchill wanted to bring the unil cd Stales into world War i in so badly that he concealed British knowledge of japanese movements before the dec 7, 1941, attack. Extracts of the Book were published in the in dependent newspaper and one of us authors James Kus Bridger spoke about it to British Broad casting corp. Radio. The Book says British or american motives can not be known for certain until he release of Many still secret documents. But it says Churchill must have known of inc attack. One thing is certain. Had Britain shared with the americans its full knowledge of its own work against japanese naval codes he attack on Pearl Harbor would never have occurred,".the Book is quoted assaying Kun Bridger said the Only other possibility was that Churchill told . President Franklin d. Roosevelt and Roosevelt deliberately allowed the attack to take place. Rusbridge said Char would have been a conspiracy Loo Large so have been Kepi secret. The assault on the naval base in Hawaii took the United Stales by Surprise and led to the . Entry into the War. About 2,400  were killed and 21 vessels were damaged or destroyed in the attack. The Book describes the wartime code breaking work of an australian intelligence official at Britain s code Eric Nave moskva Mcdonald s eagerly awaited Moscow a Young people front the dulled Stales Canada and West Germany will help soviets Sene big Maes and Bench  muscovites it Ben the familiar Golden Arches go up a few blocks from red Square by Early next year pravda Slid thursday. The  party Dally printed a Quarter punt article hut asked in a headline will the Bis Mac debut soon alongside was a drawing of the trademark Golden Arches above the words moskva Mcdonald Vladimir i malls kor chief of he food service administration of he Moscow City Council an swered the question  much want to open the first restau rant at year s end  the latest in the first Quarter of next year it Lishko said. But the company must finish building its factory to Moscow to make ingredients George a Cohon president of Mcdonald s restaurants of Canada ltd., told pravda. Foreigners nil be shipping hamburgers and serving milk shakes alongside soviet workers when the 650-Senl restaurant opens on Gorky Street Cohon sad. The article made it Clear that muscovite de serve a break today from substandard food serv ice but indicated that a mcdonald1 is still dream the article temptingly described he ease of being Able to give a order and within moments walk Guttay from the counter with appetizing  the hamburgers Are not Only tasty they melt in your Mouth Prada commented the inside of the restaurant u a kingdom of cleanliness and Coz inns. And they do it All for you Prada said mimicking one of Mcdonald s advertising slogans in april Cohon and Mali kor alg cd in joint agreement to open Mcdonald s restaurants in the soviet Union. Officials said soviets would be Able of buy a big Mac for 2 rubles about $3and cipher school. It was written by the official Eric Nave now 90, who went on to become director of Australia s Domestic intelligence Agency. The co author is Rusbridge a former official with Britain s Agency for foreign intelligence. The Independent said it obtained a copy of the manuscript. In said the Book s publication was cancelled after the government body overseeing the Media s treatment of National Security issued a warning against revealing signals intelligence. Rus Bridger scoffed at the possibility that the Book could jeopardize National Security. This is the Catchall phrase that is always used when something comes up which is  Between 1939-1941, Nave helped crack the Japa. Nose Navy-25 code while working at the Bureau s Hong Kong and Singapore Bureau the newspaper said. J it quoted the authors As saying that the code was not difficult to break but it was tedious. By 1940, we could read the main japanese naval code without difficulty it said. The Book said the British Learned that six japanese aircraft carriers two battleships,.two heavy cruisers one Light Cruiser and nine destroyers left their base in the Kurit islands North of Japan m november 1941. The far East Bureau knew that the task Force had sailed from the Buriles on 26 november refuelled at sea eight Days later so a Little work with the relevant charts placed the task Force off Hawaii on dec. 7," the Book was quoted As saying. The Only other possible target was the Philippines then a . Colony said the Book. When Nave heard of the attack he said what i could not understand was How the americans could be so unprepared when the British had such a wealth of accurate intelligence available about Japan s  the Book asked did Churchill want to bring America into the War so badly that he deliberately concealed from Roosevelt the news that the task Force had sailed and that an attack would be launched on 7 december France says Pouch did not hold cocaine Paris a . Customs Gerls in Miami mis took common consular documents for packets of co Caine inside a scaled diplomatic Pouch the French foreign ministry said thursday adding that a formal protest would be lodged Over the shocking affair. The Pouch was sent to Paris after drug sniffing dogs at Miami International Airport on tuesday detected what appeared to be 13 packages of cocaine in the sealed Pouch of a French foreign service courier in route , authorities in Miami said. The courier travelling under diplomatic immunity arrived in Miami from Santo Domingo dominican Republic with the Pouch containing totally inoffensive working material being carried from Paris to the French embassy in Kingston Jamaica said Thierry Reynard the French Consul in Miami after the dogs performing a routine baggage Check at the Airport alerted . Customs officials a television x Ray was made of the unopened Pouch customs spokes Man Michael Sheehan said the a Ray revealed kilo size bricks wrapped in what appeared to be plastic and tape. The unidentified courier refused to allow agents to look inside. The courier was detained for nine hours until the . State department ordered him released and Al Lowed him to continue  immunity  a customs spokesman said the Pouch opened wednesday in Paris at the for eign ministry before anti drug enforcement officials contained no drugs the foreign ministry statement thursday said. The a Ray machine and dogs mistook some pack Ages of Sel sticking visa Stamps for packages of co Caine it said. The French embassy in Washington has been instructed to protest against the unacceptable Altitude of the customs service at the Miami Airport and the Lack of respect for the Vienna convention governing the treatment of diplomats. The foreign ministry statement also condemned the particularly shocking exploitation by the press which was ready to spread unfounded  in Miami Sheehan said earlier that the customs service was incensed by the fact that the evidence was overwhelming that drugs were  no batteries a student in Yanni China carries his Abacus Home from school prepared for an evening of arithmetic Homework using beads instead of calculator buttons. Use of the Abacus is trill wide spread in Many parts of China. Mitterrand blocks Sale of missiles to Congo Paris a president Francois Mitterrand on wednesday cancelled a contract for the Sale of French ground to air mistral missiles to die Congo and ordered an investigation into the Sale. A statement issued by the presidential Palace did not provide the reason for the cancellation. The weekly Magazine l Etc Nemm  
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