Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the "right people" want to hear, or say the wrong, though perhaps honest thing and sometimes lose their post, their promotion, or their job. When a report is written with the idea that it will be read ten years from now or that what it says must not offend an important group of people, the report is likely to be somewhat less than honest...
Convenient Theory. When the city was calm again, the government announced its finding: the riots had been caused by Chinese secret societies that victimize the refugees. This was a convenient theory, designed to offend neither the Communists nor the Nationalists, and no one gave it much credence. The riots were undoubtedly spontaneous, but the well-discipline'd movements and the antiforeigner manifestations that marked their later stages smacked suspiciously of classic Communist tactics. As the only political organization in Hong Kong capable of such efficient exploitation, the Communists stood to gain by using the violence to 1) test Hong...
...position was that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish to offend King Saud, and thereby endanger the Dhahran airbase negotiations or Aram-co's valuable oil interests in Saudi Arabia...
...Washington's bitterest technical squabbles, the long rivalry between aircraft-guidance systems, reached a new phase last week. The Air Coordinating Committee announced a compromise plan that looks like a desperate attempt to offend no one. The plan recommends that both guidance systems, VOR (Very High Frequency Omnirange) and TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) be "combined" under the hybrid name of VORTAC...
...graduate its first class of rehabilitated prostitutes from a special school created as part of Premier Diem's anti-vice crusade. In order to be admitted to the school, each girl had to be caught with at least three different male companions ("We must be careful not to offend bona fide lovers," explained a police official). After graduation they were assured jobs as cooks, seamstresses or nurses with the army or other government agencies. The school does not want for replacements: on one night last week police rounded up 100 more prospective students from the streets of Saigon...