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Harried John Chang, a prominent Roman Catholic layman, is full of eminently sensible plans for Korea. To help restore the nation's derelict economy, he wants a cut of 200,000 men in South Korea's 630,000 man army, Asia's largest outside Red China. He is also committed to improving South Korea's troubled relations with Japan. But he has little chance of carrying his program through, unless South Korea can shake off the addiction to anarchy displayed by politicians and ordinary citizens alike since the revolt against Rhee. Pondering South Korea...
...piano. For a while, Fadell also had Kline's son and daughter on the payroll of his public relations firm. It was obvious from Attorney General Mondale's report that the foundation's board of directors, made up of prominent businessmen and civic leaders, had been derelict in its utter failure to oversee the foundation's finances. Admitted former Board President R. Bruce Reinecker, a Minneapolis printing executive: "We put considerable trust in Marv Kline. Obviously, it wasn't justified...
...cold war, it had a right to defend itself against surprise attack by intelligence activities. This policy was laid down first by Secretary of State Christian Herter in a formal statement. "The Government of the United States," said he, as he prepared to go to the summit, "would be derelict to its responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome this danger of surprise attack. In fact, the U.S. has not and does...
...response was brusque. Said Secretary of State Herter: As long as the Russians "keep their society tightly closed and rigorously controlled . . . with threats of mass destruction frequently voiced by the Soviet leadership," the Government of the U.S. would be "derelict in its responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome the danger of surprise attack." At his press conference two days later, President Eisenhower charged that the Soviet "fetish of secrecy and concealment...
...consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...