Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISRAEL is determined to maintain order in the territories seized from its neighbors in the 1967 war. To do so, it has taken harsh action against anyone believed to have harbored or assisted Arab terrorists. The houses of suspects have been destroyed, the owners exiled to Arab countries or imprisoned. As the war of terror has intensified, so have Israeli reprisals. When an Israeli soldier was killed by a terrorist hand grenade in the village of Halhoul in occupied Jordanian territory last month, Israelis decided to hold the community responsible. Acting under Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's new concept...
...less than total victory. Later that day, after Golda and Moshe returned to the Cabinet, which was still in session, the Ministers refused either to approve or disapprove his doctrine of neighborhood punishment. Instead, they agreed on a formula to limit the old war hero's freedom of action. In the future, the general must have clearance from the Cabinet or its security committee before he punishes a whole community for the actions of terrorists operating there...
...play is vaguely set in Japan in about the 17th, 18th or 19th century. Dramatic purists might reject the entire work as being similarly vague, as too often cloaking murk in mystification. The action unfolds like a series of semi-related Japanese prints, some limpidly serene, others viscerally gory...
...sign that the rate of price increases is leveling off. Four prominent Manhattan clothing manufacturers joined last week in a startling call for federal wage-price controls. Said Lawrence S. Phillips, president of shirt-making Phillips-Van Heusen: "Unfortunately, all other efforts to halt inflation have failed. Unless some action is taken immediately, a monetary and social situation rivaling that of Depression days is inevitable." President Michael Daroff of Botany Industries, Richard Schwartz of Jonathan Logan, Inc., and Alfred Slaner of Kayser-Roth gloomily agreed with Phillips that consumers are showing growing resistance to clothing price increases; Daroff added that...
...administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency under President Kennedy, former Test Pilot Najeeb Halaby endeared himself to private flyers by hopping all over the nation for airport talkfests about their problems. His yen to be where the action is led him to fly to the scene of nearly every commercial air crash. One day he learned that sky divers might endanger air traffic. Characteristically, Halaby parachuted himself, pronounced diving great sport-then called for restrictions...