Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone until they now account for better than 70% of the Communists' hard core troops. While South Vietnamese celebrated Tet, the lunar new year, Giap unleashed his general offensive...
Saudi Arabia's ex-King Saud is down to his last few dozen concubines, scrimps along on a Swiss bank account that has dwindled to a mere $250 million, and has taken the hint from his brother, King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already...
Leader in the field is Detroit's eight-month-old Realtron, Inc., which uses an IBM 1440 to keep an up-to-date account of 8,000 listings in the area, with each house coded for 23 characteristics, including location, style, extra baths, price, and, on request, even the cost of adjacent property. Thus, when Mr. and Mrs. John Grima recently decided that what with their Great Dane, they had too much house and too little yard in their suburban residence in Westland, they consulted a broker subscribing to Realtron. Their specific requirements were checked off and fed into...
...long regarded as a segregationist by other Baptist leaders, Criswell insisted that his 15,000-member congregation includes three Negroes. There is no disputing, however, the conservatism of his theology. Criswell is strongly opposed to the teaching of evolution in public schools, believes that Genesis provides a literally accurate account of the world's beginning...
...standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken into account, the state's Supreme Judicial Court said: "One holding himself out as a specialist should be held to the standard of care and skill of the average member of the specialty. The time has come when the medical profession should no longer be Balkanized by the application of varying...