Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...
...spearhead his fanatical Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Opposing them with increasing vehemence were urban workers, resentful of the Red Guards' noisy and disrespectful descent on their factories in the name of Mao-think. The workers were encouraged in their opposition by much of the Communist Party apparatus still loyal to China's President, Liu Shao-chi. The results were disorders, widespread work stoppages and outright brawling in a score of industrial centers and cities throughout China...
...sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has become murky, and the main orientation of the struggle is changed, so that in the confusion the dreadful conse quences of this will be blamed on the revolutionary leftists"-meaning the loyal Maoists themselves...
Still, loyalties are never long-lived in Laos, and Souvanna's fragile web of alliances-of groups loyal to the top ten ruling families, to the military and to other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...demented anti-Semite, sentenced by a French court to "national degradation" as a Nazi collaborator. Reprieved but unforgiven, he lived his last years as a recluse in a Paris suburb, seeing only his loyal wife. Yet this same man was a hero of World War I for a voluntary exploit in which he suffered a severe head wound. Brain injury left him hallucinated, plagued by noises in his head, an insomniac whose sanity was often questioned. Despite this, he became a physician and, under his real name, Dr. Henri-Louis Destouches, he chose to live among the poor of Paris...