Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt your picture of the execution of a Viet Cong officer by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan will bring much satisfaction to the hairy 2% of our populace who revile the atrocities, some real and some imagined, committed by the U.S. and its allies while turning a deaf ear to murder and assassination by the Viet Cong. I only hope that alongside of it in the history books is placed the picture of the South Vietnamese officer carrying the body of his child murdered by these same Viet Cong...
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...Book & Bullet That picture is lodged in people's memories. Taken during the recent Communist assault on Viet Nam's cities, it showed Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 37, chief of South Viet Nam's 75,000-man national police force cold-bloodedly executing a guerrilla suspect-a thin, frightened, but stubbornlooking man in plaid shirt and pants who had been seized by soldiers in a Saigon street. In no mood to ask questions, the spindly general whipped out his snub-nosed .38 revolver and wordlessly blew the suspect's brains out. "Many Americans have died...
...quarter of our total assessable base. But more importantly than any of these losses, the city had lost the confidence of both its investors and its residents: only two buildings of any significance had been built in Boston in over 35 years; major insurance companies across America would not loan money in Boston; our credit rating had been recently changed; and a feeling of despondency, almost municipal hypochondria had settled over the City. It was necessary, as I saw it, to do three things simultaneously, with perhaps more haste than one might have chosen to use had other options been...
Screened Risks. That combination has proved so enticing to savings and loan associations, the largest single source of housing credit, that last year they did twice as much business with M.G.I.C. ($860 million) as with the FHA. Unlike the FHA, the Milwaukee firm relies on its 4,500 lender-customers to appraise the value of property it insures, screens out bad risks by spot checks. The company concentrates on loans for city and suburban one-family homes, generally insists on at least a 10% down payment. As a result, its foreclosure rate runs about half that of the FHA, which...