Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps in an attempt to counter such bad publicity, Colonel Lien explained his strategy to newsmen in Kontum. In excellent English, the cocky colonel confided that he deliberately used Ben Het as "bait" to lure the North Vietnamese into a position where allied firepower could destroy them. At Ben Het and Dak To, U.S. officers laughed openly at Lien's suggestion. U.S. headquarters in Saigon pointed out that General Creighton Abrams has specifically forbidden ever using allied men as bait...
...into which is integrated strong tension in the relations between figures. Later in the film a child stands staring at the villainess, who is disguised as a nun. Discomfited, she gets up and moves out of his view. In both sequences a child's clear view of good and bad coexists with, and is even diverted by, the marvelous beauty of people and settings...
...work keeps total income far below the poverty level. Average family income is less than $1,600 a year. There is no job security, and fringe benefits are few. If they are migrants, the workers must frequently live in fetid shacks without light or plumbing (though housing, bad as it is, is frequently free or very cheap.) As a result, many have moved to the cities, where even unskilled labor can find work at decent wages...
...protect the rights of criminal defendants: > In a pair of cases from Alabama and North Carolina, the court ruled that a man who gets a criminal conviction set aside but is convicted a second time on the same charge, may not be given a longer sentence without any justification. Bad conduct after the first trial may be sufficient reason for a harsher sentence, the court said, but a man may not be punished merely for exercising his right of appeal. By a 7-to-l majority, the court ruled that unless the trial record adequately explains the reason...
Attorney General John Mitchell has gone much farther than any of his pre decessors toward promoting the proposition that bigness in business is intrinsically bad. In June he warned that the Government "may very well" chal lenge any merger between two of the largest 200 U.S. companies. Last week Mitchell proved to be as good as his word. His trustbusters announced that they will file suit to block the planned merger of Harold Geneen's International Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest and one of the best-managed conglomerates, with Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The merger would rank among the largest...