Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Charge No. 2: Hoffa runs a hoodlum empire...
...then, the committee has uncovered a lot more of the Hoffa record. At one point during the hearings. Jimmy Hoffa, an aggressively contemptuous witness, told the committee: "I think my record speaks for itself." It surely does. And on the basis of that record, the committee documents several damning general charges with scores of specifically detailed charges...
...over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
Grave Situation. "It's real war here in Samneua," reported Laos' commander in the north, French-trained, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, to a TIME correspondent visiting the general's headquarters in the provincial capital of Samneua town, deep in a mountain valley not far from the fighting. "I've been losing men daily. My head is just about bursting. I've sent telegram after telegram to the Ministry of Defense explaining the gravity of this situation. I've not had any reply yet. I have asked Vientiane repeatedly...
...General Amkha was not seeking more troops; as the French learned in 1954, orthodox methods of war do not work in the jungles of Samneua province where there are no roads and where the monsoon has turned the few tiny airstrips into quagmires. What he wants is money, medical supplies, food and weapons to give to villagers in the threatened countryside. "We must win people's hearts, arm them, organize them into guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn...