Word: fu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, long a hard-liner about the war in nearby South Viet Nam, returned from a visit to Washington to announce that the U.S. and North Viet Nam had entered the "final stages" of bargaining for a bombing pause, predicted results in the "not too distant fu ture." In Paris, an official of an allied country with troops in the South said flatly: "Everything is settled." The White House was far more cautious. But when rumors began spreading that the talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam were on the verge of collapse, word was passed...
...whom were removed from their posts, were important men indeed: General Yang Chengwu, who as acting chief of the general staff had been second only to Lin Piao in the military hierarchy; General Yu Li-chin, the political commissar of China's air force; and General Fu Chung-pi, commander of the army's vital Peking garrison. All three had taken an active part in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that has been tearing China apart, and all three were appointed to their jobs by Lin Piao...
...moment, however, the party seems less concerned with persecuting Liu than with ridding itself of the extreme leftists in its military establishment. Party wall posters now hint that Public Security Minister Hsieh Fu-chih, another Lin Piao loyalist, may lose his job. And the official New China News Agency, covering a reception for 10,000 army officers given last week by Map, made it clear that many of those invited would soon become victims of the purge. The agency found only ten of the officers secure enough in their jobs to be mentioned by name, whereas in the past...
...predicting that the Orange County formula will set any publishing trends, but it very well may. He is already thinking of adding additional satellites during the next five years in such growing Los Angeles sub urban areas as Ventura County and the San Gabriel Valley. And in the fu ture he says, satellite publishing seem to make sense in metropolitan markets, where papers are interested in furthering their economic base, away from the center city...
...four set out for Braverman's fu neral, bickering all the way to the Brooklyn synagogue. Sometimes the quarrels center around Booke's Volkswagen, an offense to Wiseman's anti-German sensibilities. Sometimes the men vie with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King...