Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas suggested that Israeli immigration should be more moderate and take into account the feelings of the Arab nations, explaining "We must learn to compromise and live with our neighbors in peace if we are to avoid total destruction." He also contended, "the world should attempt to "secure the right of every individual to live peacefully wherever he wants," rather than segregate Jews in a particular geographic area...
...your account [March 2] of the home school provided for Tommy Kral by his parents Otto and Mary, it occurs to me that their determination to give adequate training to children who meet no real challenge in our public school systems could well be rewarded with something better than court action. Let's have a movement to change our educational laws so that children educated at home would be required to pass examinations provided by the public school system. This would eliminate the undesirable leveling of above average children and relieve public school overcrowding...
...case in mind, Castro said. An official of his Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property-"someone that we know"-had accepted a bribe of $400,000 for unfreezing a frozen bank account of more than $900,000. "We are studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian...
...fact, the Department spends only 44.3 per cent of its annual budget on the 31,000 pounds of flour or the 60,000 quarts of milk used monthly in its operations. If budget trimming can be practiced in the Department, it might start among the salaried workers. Wages account for 44.1 per cent of the Department's expenditures, and a reduction might make a drop in the board rate feasible...
Shadow Play. To the account of all this-the fencing of crossexamination, the cumbersome but deeply civilized legal safeguards of the individual, the Greek chorus of spectators and newsmen commenting on the proceedings-Author Bedford brings a superb style and a magic eye through which she sees old scenes in a new way. One of her courtroom vignettes: "Some of the seats have emptied. People have crept out into the hall, to send off the latest or just to smoke, for air . . . Looking back through the glass panels of the shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads...