Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replacement parts, engineers and mechanics cannibalize pieces of old farm and industrial equipment, trucks, and anything else they can find, and graft them onto other machines. Cubana Airlines has three four-engined Bristol Britannias at Havana airport. Often just one flies; the other two supply the spare parts. The few cars on Havana streets are rolling junk heaps - but precious junkheaps. "I could sell this thing for $1,400," boasts the proud owner of a broken-down 1948 Kaiser. When Havana's old General Motors buses finally began to give out, Castro imported a flashy new fleet from Czechoslovakia...
There are other issues in the campaign, which has only six weeks to go. In the first, fine rapture of his 1961 election, Macapagal appointed a presidential anti-graft committee. Its report last year stated that "graft and corruption have invaded all branches of the government on a nationwide and more massive scale." The Nacionalistas have tried to use the report against Macapagal, but have been unable to pin anything on him since his personal record is remarkably clean for a Filipino politician. Anticorruption has become the main plank in the campaign of a third candidate in the race...
Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...
...wide split where there is normally a tight fit. Worse still, the splitting of the arterial walls extended into parts of four branch arteries-the two renals, supplying both kidneys; the mesenteric, supplying much of the intestines; and the celiac, supplying the stomach, liver and spleen. Using a graft with six connections, Dr. DeBakey replaced the entire assemblage of arterial piping...
...mutinied against Admiral Chung Tan Cang - thus setting in motion a chain of military movements that could have ended in a coup -Quat quickly brought the mutineers to trial for breach of discipline. At the same time, he suspended Cang pending a full investigation of the mutineers' charges: graft and malfeasance. Military order was maintained, and the customary Vietnamese tactic of taking the law into one's own hands was sternly rejected...