Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India became delirious with victory. News of the Indian advances was wildly cheered in Parliament. The government radio announced the "liberation" of 5,000 people and the establishment of Indian civil administration in the "liberated" areas. While they were at it, Indian troops decided to "correct" the cease-fire line where it bulged toward the Kashmir capital of Srinagar: the salient was reduced from about 80 miles to 16. In New Delhi, a top official announced: "The United Nations has not been able to see to it that the cease fire line is observed. India has taken the task upon...
...Correct Pose. The President, with his sure political instinct, assumed the correct pose: he was patronizing to his G.O.P. critics and patriotic toward everybody else. "I think the issues of war and peace in Viet Nam," he told his press conference, "are far greater than any personal differences that one might have-for that matter, far greater than any parties. The boys that are fighting the war are not divided between Republicans and Democrats. The men directing the strategies-I don't know what party they belong...
...Reedy, 55, was cast as a big man around the White House when he was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, and last week he came back in just about the biggest casts anyone ever saw. Recovering after a successful operation at Rochester, Minn.'s Methodist Hospital to correct a painful condition called "hammertoes" (in which the toes curl under the foot), Reedy clomped over for a chat with the boss, said he would be back puttering at odd jobs in the White House this week, consulting the President on labor matters and appointments. Asked how he felt with...
...model. It declares that any school is "racially imbalanced" if more than 50% of the enrollment is nonwhite (but not vice versa), and calls for an annual head count to check the balance. Where an imbalance exists, local school authorities must devise plans to correct it. If they fail to do so, the state not only can, but must cut off state aid to that district...
...down to the 50% level, or it could bring in a balancing number of white students, or do a little of both. No family, however, can be compelled to have its children transported out of their neighborhood if the parents object in writing. To help districts expand facilities to correct an imbalance, the state will pay 65%−instead of the usual 40%of construction costs...