Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this did not satisfy McCarthy, who had charged Stevens with "blackmail," but now seemed to wish that the accused would assert his innocence by passing the buck up the chain of command...
...free world In Southeast Asia. The free nations will have to join the fight, not only with planes and ships, but also with troops." The U.S. replied with preliminary, tentative conditions: France must give Viet Nam complete independence, agree to step up its own military effort, accept an allied command...
...happened that Route Coloniale 41 was Red General Giap's direct line of advance against Hanoi and the Red River Delta, but Huard apparently accepted the Red terms without question. That night the French army radio put out this note of appreciation: "The delegates of the French high command thank the delegates of the Viet people's army for their humanitarian concern." And the Communists seemed just as friendly next day when they helped load the first eleven wounded into a couple of French helicopters: "We hope you will remember what we have done for you. We hope...
...editors have ever waited so long for a promotion as National Geographic Associate Editor John Oliver La Gorce, 73. For the last 49 years he has been second in command on the prosperous Geographic under Gilbert Grosvenor, the magazine's boss since 1899. Last week Editor La Gorce finally got what he was waiting for. The Geographic board made La Gorce editor and president to take the place of Editor Grosvenor, 78, who resigned. Grosvenor steps up to be chairman of the board of trustees of the Geographic, which he has built from a tiny monthly with 900 circulation...
Last week, before three members of the government's Revolutionary Command Council, the Aboul Fath brothers were convicted of "aiming to destroy the government," "spreading propaganda abroad" hostile to the regime, and attempting to corrupt a government employee. Sentence: a padlock on Al Misri, ten years in prison for Mahmoud, tried in absentia, a suspended 15-year sentence for his brother, plus confiscation of more than $1,000,000 of the Aboul Fath property...