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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State of Siege. "From now on," cried Perón, "let us establish this as permanent conduct for our movement: he who tries to disturb order in opposition to the constituted authorities . . . may be slain by any Argentine . . . The order of the day for every Peronista, whether as an individual or as a member of an organization, is to answer any violent action with an action still more violent. And when one of our people falls, five of them will fall." Brusquely disposing of his policy of "pacification," adopted after the bloody military revolt of June...
...dismissal of a Government employee for invocation of the amendment in investigations involving loyalty on the ground that invocation has not established disloyalty. This argument, like others arguing against action based upon invocation of the privilege, overlooks the fact that silence in the face of a suggestion of given conduct constitutes in itself evidence of that conduct. It is true that the silence is permitted by the amendment, but that fact in no way detracts from the evidentiary force of the silence . . . What the force may be depends, as is true of all evidence, on the circumstances; but in respect...
Long before Capitol Hill's noisiest business baiters got worked up about the WOCs* (TIME. July 18 et seq.), Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was working out a code of conduct to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between Government duties and private interests. Last week Secretary Weeks handed down his six-page code, warned his 45,700 employees that failure to observe it could cost them their jobs. Under his new rules, Commerce employees...
Codes of Chivalry. The new U.S. code of conduct for prisoners of war (see box) is the kernel of a finding by the Advisory Committee on what happened to U.S. soldiers captured in Korea. For several weeks the committee consulted former P.W.s and their records, sifted through military histories and reports of the P.W.s in Korea seeking answers to the problems from service chiefs, educators, clergymen, doctors and psychiatrists, officials of labor and veterans' organizations. To set the precedents for the new code, the committee researched back to primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners...
Chiang Kai-shek appointed a nine-man commission to judge the general's conduct. Whatever its decision, General Sun's military career had plainly come...