Word: eral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials were either in Honolulu or Saigon, and thus, in his committee's third week of sessions devoted primarily to the war, Fulbright had to make do with Retired General James Gavin and ex-Diplomat George Kennan, neither of whom has served in any official capacity for sev eral years. Both eagerly echoed Ful bright's apprehensions about Viet...
...might that man be? President Humberto Castello Branco insists that he will not run. There is another soldier who is almost certain to be the candidate of the government's new "Party of the Revolution." He is Gen eral Artur da Costa e Silva, 63, Brazil's War Minister and Castello Branco's strong right arm in the barracks. Two men could hardly be more different in personality. Costa e Silva is a soldier's soldier, as bluff and hearty among his officers as Castello Branco is quiet and intense. Yet they work together as closely...
...Pampered Children. "Under the gen eral immigration law, Wirtz can admit foreign laborers if he is convinced that workers cannot be found on the domes tic market and if growers promise the same wages to all - now $1.40 an hour in California. He refuses, however, to admit the huge numbers that flowed in under the expired law (more than 100,000 braceros worked in California last year), bringing cries from California growers for his ouster. Despite the farm ers' complaints, Wirtz's office said, fewer than 10,000 foreign nationals have been requested under the general immigration...
...administrative level, the Fed eral Trade Commission was ready to require the same sort of labeling that Magnuson is now asking for. But the FTC was urged by Congress to postpone any ruling until next spring. President Johnson, who quit smoking after his 1955 heart attack, made no mention of cigarettes in his massive health message to Congress, which promised an all-out attack on every major ill known...
...weeks, the front-porch gossip around Philadelphia, Miss., was that Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, a pair of beefy upholders of backwater Southern justice, would soon be indicted by a fed eral grand jury in Biloxi, Miss., investigating civil rights abuses in Mississippi. Sure enough, last week they were...