Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besse Zaritsky, 55, a mother of seven from suburban Silver Spring, Md., was at work as an editorial assistant on the National Jewish Monthly Wednesday morning when she heard "stomping up the stairs" in the B'nai B'rith building. Here is her account, told to TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels, of the ordeal that followed...
...side of the room, women on the other. At night I only dozed about an hour, but I heard snoring. I thought about my family and how I hadn't typed my will and how I hadn't been able to transfer money in my bank account into bonds. And then I wished I'd spent the money-maybe on an aquamarine ring or a trip...
...only months after the fighting among Cultural Revolutionary factions had been quelled by the army. Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself. When his plot failed, the official but as yet unverified account continues, he died in a plane crash over Mongolia while he was trying to flee to the Soviet Union. Chiang Ch'ing recounted the entire case in great detail during her interview, disclosing several new elements in the Lin-Mao struggle...
...light of the controversy surrounding the events which culminated in the cancellation of the RUS women's dinner to have been held March 15 in Mather House dining hall, I feel it necessary to give a firsthand account of the situation. Hopefully, the H-R community, when presented with the correct facts, will understand what the Radcliffe Union of Students women's dinners are trying to do for the women of Radcliffe and not against the men of Harvard...
Perhaps such unskippable revelations fail to make your heart throb. Well, let us peruse the headlines of the Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails...