Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willing to go to a conference room any day. We are ready to go without stopping [the bombing], or after stopping, if they are willing to do likewise, or if they are willing to make any concession. But I don't think it's fair to ask an American commander in chief to say to your men, 'Ground your planes, tie your hands behind you, and sit there and watch division after division come across the DMZ [demilitarized zone], and don't hit them until they get within a mile...
...fairly be said that the Leipzig Trade Fair is an annual event-the one now in progress is the 802nd. But this year there is a new sound to the old show: while some 70 nations display their wares, Communists and capitalists alike are clamoring for increased East-West trade. Says Cristina Dimitriu, director of Rumania's exhibit: "We are now interested more in business than in propaganda." Says Poland's Natalia Czaplicka: "We will sell anything to anybody...
Nonetheless, there have been some corridors of advancement open. Although it is probably the least powerful of the major institutions in China, the government bureaucracy (headed by Chou En-Lai) has provided a fair possibility for advancement. For example, 28 per cent of the cabinet ministers in 1960 were Central Committee members, but by early 1966 only 18 per cent were on the Central Committee. Similarly, 46 per cent of the provincial governors were Central Committee members in 1960, but now the figure is only 27 per cent. It is necessary to re-emphasize, however, that the "newcomers...
...think it is fair to say that in salaries the average independent school is barely holding its own--in fact--with the average public school system. This is probably the single most frightening fact for the future of independent school education in the United States...
Soft Approach. Equally upset was 79-year-old Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment...