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...courtly ritual marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile, at NBC headquarters in New York City, the news staff gleefully made up "an endangered species list...
...Social Purification Commission, which is overseeing the antifavoritism campaign, has already held more than 12,000 rallies and confidently predicts that more than 1 million Koreans will have signed by the end of April. But many have doubts about the prospects for successfully legislating morality. Says Kim Hae Dong, a professor of government administration at Seoul National University: "To make the drive a success, the government must first build a society in which people can do business without seeking favoritism." Koreans, in fact, regard saba-saba as a ubiquitous national institution, as hard to do without as kimchi, the fiery...
...They are doing the job," Crimson coach Bill Cleary said after the game. "They're passing, moving the puck and skating, and it's hard to stop any line dong all of those things. They don't stand still...
...attract needed dollars, the government is resorting to vintage capitalist incentives. Saigonese with dollar accounts abroad who repatriate their wealth are rewarded with access to duty-free stores that sell imported goods. Citizens who receive dollars from relatives overseas can exchange them for Vietnamese dong at a premium rate. Businesses that make products for international trade are allowed to receive or spend dollars and gold freely. Explains one government adviser: "We don't care where the dollars come from as long as they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from...
Viet Nam's party boss Le Duan and Premier Pham Van Dong visited Moscow two weeks ago for a meeting with their Soviet counterparts, Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. Le Duan said that the solidarity of the two allies had given Viet Nam "new great strength" to face its problems, many of which were caused "by collusion between U.S.-led imperialism and Chinese expansionism." Brezhnev responded by agreeing that "China and the U.S. encourage each other in almost everything when it comes to abusing the will of the peoples of Indochina...