Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iraq's Baathist junta of retired Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr has become increasingly nervous and repressive since it came to power last July. It began with a "policy of openness," pledged to stamp out corruption, release political prisoners and welcome exiles home. But the junta had too narrow a power base to tolerate such liberal measures. Last Dec. 3, when the Israelis shelled and bombed Iraqi forces in Jordan, the Al-Bakr regime was quick to blame its growing internal troubles on Israeli spies...
...past year, the un easiness of Spain's military leaders had come to focus on five major areas: the press, the lawyers, labor, the church and the universities...
...Blake's most significant moves so far has been to cultivate young, revolution-minded churchmen from the Third World. Among his major appointments is the Rev. Philip Potter, a West Indian Methodist, as director of the Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or...
...hair and a pencil-thin mustache-seems to enjoy appearing less than couth. Stone's frequent repetition of stock lines and his mispronunciations can be misleading. He is serious, bright and extremely shrewd. Though he delegates day-to-day authority to five top aides, he makes all the major policy decisions. His three grown children are all directors of Combined. Stone goes into the office only one day a week, on other days he works at home or travels-visiting the company's field men and preaching P.M.A...
...Philadelphia, Washington, New Haven or any combination of two or three of them) so that the out-of-town critics can point out the mistakes that have to be corrected before the production faces the New York critics. But if the flaws pointed out by the provincial critics are major, fixing a show on the road becomes a hectic, often panicky, race against time...