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...question is even more relevant now, since more than 5,500 suspected Communists were captured during the Tet offensive. In previous modern wars, the rare soldier caught out of uniform could expect to be shot as a spy; the Geneva Convention of 1949 in effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas...
...time President of Ecuador, Plaza himself served as his country's President from 1948 to 1952, becoming Ecuador's first chief of state in modern history to keep the army out of the palace. He also won a wide reputation as a shrewd internationalist while serving as a U.N. troubleshooter in Lebanon, the Congo and Cyprus and heading the hard-working United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. What Latin America needs most, Plaza once said, is a "strong, dynamic, creative" OAS. Now he has the chance to see if he can create just that...
...that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
Died. Dr. Thomas Parran, 75, Surgeon General of the U.S. from 1936 to 1948, a founder of the World Health Organization, and leader of the long campaign against venereal disease; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Few have done more to bring modern medicine to the nation's poor than this gentlemanly physician; he fought typhoid and hookworm in South Carolina, smallpox in Colorado, tuberculosis in New York slums. In the struggle against venereal disease, he distributed educational pamphlets across the U.S., campaigned for widespread syphilis tests, and relentlessly tracked the sources of infection to such effect that the number...
...easily translated Machiavelli into modern corporatese: "Senior men in taken-over firms should either be warmly welcomed and encouraged, or sacked: because if they are sacked they are powerless, whereas if they are simply downgraded they will remain united and resentful and determined to get their own back." Admits...