Word: imbroglio
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Since the conditional resignation of Chief Justice Earl Warren six months ago, the question of naming his successor has become an imbroglio of partisan politics and personal enmities. Last week the controversy erupted once again...
...capital, effigies of Marcos were burned. A brief attempt at a cooling-off period (TIME, Aug. 16) failed. Malaysia passed legislation purporting to nullify the Philippine action and condemned it as a "composite of fantasy, fallacy and fiction." Now, diplomatic contacts are minimal. Largely overlooked in the imbroglio are the 600,000 Sabahans themselves, who, including the Moslem minority which has considerable cultural and economic influence in Sabah, would clearly prefer to stay in Malaysia. >Singapore v. Indonesia: In March 1965, a band of Indonesian marines infiltrated Singapore, then still a part of the newborn nation of Malaysia...
...addressed the broader educational issues raised by the Soc Rel 148 controversy. The staff submitted a detailed description of their vision of the course to Dean Ford and the Social Relations Department last week [see page 3]. The imbroglio must now be settled by the Department, which will probably judge the course on the basis of existing regulations. This is as it should be. The broader issues involve the entire Faculty, not just the Soc Rel Department. But if the problem is settled and then dropped, the most important lesson of 148 will be lost...
...unexpectedly agrees to the dissolution of the Thieu government and allows the subsequent establishment of a coalition heavily weighted in favor of the NLF, several other knots must be unraveled. In short, what some Americans have long considered a simple sell-out will not be sufficient to conclude the imbroglio in Vietnam...
...cause of the current imbroglio is politics: Congressional and Presidential. Last March, the Marshall Commission recommended a random-selection draft system, as did President Johnson four days later in the Selective Service legislation he sent to Congress. Senator Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was initially opposed to the measure, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) convinced him of its merits. The bill the Senate passed allowed the President to institute a lottery on his own initiative without consulting Congress...