Word: highhandedness
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At week's end, the invaders were not even under way. Members of the "peacekeeping force" were still squabbling among themselves; the British frigate they were supposed to board swung at anchor off Antigua. But sooner or later the combined expedition from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago and Barbados expects...
While his northern boss was out of town, Loc fired northern doctors from comfortable Saigon jobs, transferred them to clinics in the interior and gave their places to his southern friends. He did not get away with it. On the orders of National Police Commander General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a...
Power & Pingpong. For 30 years, the King had put up with despotic rule. When he came to power in 1933 after his father's assassination, Zahir Shah let his uncles run the country while he played games and grew vegetables. In 1953 Zahir Shah's cousin, Prince Mohammed...
The rumble came about when Speaker John McCormack, anxious to speed toward adjournment, tried to force sev en bills out of the Rules Committee by applying the "21 -Day Rule," passed last January. It provides that if a bill has been held in committee for 21 days, it can be...
To show that he meant business, Ky announced that one civil servant would be executed shortly for embezzling $255,000. He also had a convicted Viet Cong terrorist shot in a Saigon marketplace, ordered all four army corps commanders to do likewise. Stirring unhappy memories of highhanded Mme. Nhu, the...