Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were invited to Indonesia's Bandung anniversary seven weeks ago, Souvanna tried to keep Kong Le at home, knowing that Indonesia would like nothing better than to woo his neutralist general with offers of arms and aid. Indonesia's President Sukarno threw everything at him, including bare-breasted Balinese dancers and bushels of flowers. But Kong Le took care of himself: he refused the offer of guns, danced with the girls-and accepted a pair of sewing machines for his tailor shops at Vang Vieng...
...bodies disemboweled, and in many cases, emasculated. In Binh Dinh province, the Viet Cong beheaded a village chief and hacked off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter. They also took the chief's six-year-old son, laid a rifle across his bare back and fired it several times, leaving a twelve-inch scar. In the same province two months ago, the Viet Cong conscripted 125 village men for forced labor; when 25 villagers refused to go along, the Viet Cong shot them. At a village between Saigon and Dalat last week, a Viet...
Regional Justice. The world already has the bare bones of a judicial system. At the top is the International Court of Justice at The Hague, best known as the World Court, which aims to settle disputes between nations. But the court's 15 judges (elected by the U.N. from 15 different nations) cannot hear any case until the parties admit its jurisdiction, and the U.S. itself, despite growing opposition to its stand (TIME, May 7), reserves the right to ignore the court under the so-called Connally Amendment...
...present state of permissive morals and confused manners, what outrages "public decency"? Not, apparently a bare-breasted girl. Not, at least, in California, which in recent months has witnessed the emergence of the bare-breasted waitress...
...Ruby, ingeniously asked for dismissal on the grounds that the girls had been made to incriminate themselves, since nobody had told them they could refuse to have their pictures taken in the nonattire they were not wearing when they were arrested. Municipal Judge Leo Friedman concurred, further ruled that bare bosoms, in and of themselves, are neither lewd, lascivious nor obscene, and advised the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. The jury complied...