Word: commissioner
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The "John" in that conversation was Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 63, Prime Minister of South Africa for twelve years and its President for the past nine months. The speaker was General Hendrik Van den Bergh, former head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS); his testimony is included in the third...
That was part of the dream of the founders of postwar Western Europe, who envisaged economic cooperation leading toward ever closer political unity. Yet on paper, the powers of the European Parliament remain pitifully small. It will be essentially a consultative body with limited budgetary powers. But it could challenge...
The College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the S.A.T., has steadfastly tried to discredit cram schools, thus defending the S.A.T.'s objective infallibility. But the coaching schools, which also prepare students for the Law School Admissions Test (L.S.A.T.) and Graduate Record Examinations, have become more than a $10 million...
Army soldiers and Utah residents exposed to fallout from the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and early '60s, the workers all wore dosimeters-simple instruments for measuring radiation. Their records will be maintained and the workers observed for radiation effects like leukemia. The study's sponsors: the...
An old question keeps recurring: Who should control so pervasive a force? A Civil Rights Commission report last winter on the role of minorities on television complained that women, blacks and others, including Hispanics, Pacific Island Americans, American Indians and even Alaskan natives are underrepresented in or virtually absent from...