Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictable, above-the-battle tones. Nobody ever had it so good, he said, ticking off the latest bench marks of prosperity. September was the 43rd month of economic expansion: employment stood at an impressive 70 million. He promised to give the economy still another shot in the arm by cutting excise taxes next year; he reaffirmed his stand on medicare, on increases in the minimum wage and unemployment compensation...
...respiration. Dr. Malcolm O. Perry, the chief doctor, decided that a more radical procedure was necessary; he performed a tracheotomy, making an incision that cut away the wound in the front of the throat. Meanwhile, two doctors infused blood and fluids into the President's right leg and left arm. Dr. Carrico gave him hydrocortisone. Two others inserted chest tubes to drain off blood and air from the chest cavity...
Tribal State. In an ambitious attempt to win over the montagnards, U.S. military advisers in 1962 started a program to train and arm them so that they could defend their villages from guerrilla attack. More than 9,000 were schooled by U.S. Special Forces instructors, who found them to be fierce, loyal fighters, extremely useful in cutting Communist Viet Cong supply lines in jungle-covered mountains; most came from the relatively civilized Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe. However, when the hated lowlanders from the Vietnamese government gradually took over the program, racial tension mounted in the training camps, and montagnards...
...with the Left. The whole experience apparently sobered both sides, and they have moved steadily closer ever since. Belaúnde meets frequently with Haya and Odría lieutenants, takes pains to buttonhole opposition Congressmen for arm-in-arm chats and friendly lunches at the presidential palace. The far-leftists who once supported Belaúnde are no longer welcome. In the past six months, his police have been jailing extremists all over the country, and his Acción Popular Party has expelled its former general secretary, Leftist Mario Villarán. Last April, when Peru...
Sterilized before it is packaged, the inflatable splint has been widely tested in hospitals (which pay $6.90 for the arm size, $8.10 for the leg size). Orthopedists have found it useful for immobilizing limbs after surgery, before they put on a plaster cast...