Word: offi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Syrians stewed in their isolation, Jordan's King Hussein was playing his own kind of game. Off he went to Moscow to confer with Soviet offi cials, who offered him both military and economic assistance "in principle" but mentioned no specifics. That was just fine with the King; he preferred not to sign anything and to keep the promises general. Thus, without obligating himself to the Russians, he can use their offers of help to show Washington and London that he has other places to go if they do not give him what he wants...
...unacceptable affront to sovereignty and protocol. It was both peremptory and insulting, addressing itself to "the British government's utterly hideous and ferocious features of fascist imperialism." Britain's man in Peking, Charge d'Affaires Donald Hopson, 52, a cool, much-decorated World War II commando offi cer, simply refused to send it to London. Peking, of course, broadcast the texts anyway. It demanded the release of 53 imprisoned Hong Kong Communists within 48 hours and the re opening of three outlawed Red tabloids in the troubled crown colony-or else the Chinese would take unspecified action...
...their traditional authority figure. In the past decade, the Viet Cong have systematically wiped out some 15,000 local offi cials?disposing of the worst as well as the best. Killing the best undermines Saigon capacity to govern; killing the worst wins the villagers' gratitude. The result not only makes for mediocrity among those remaining, but serves as a sharp warning to them not to prosecute their tasks too diligently...
Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chair man Gardner Ackley, who prepared the memo, are by no means the only offi cials to believe that the President should make up his mind on the tax issue as soon as possible...
...Game. For a scholar and administrator, Rorimer revealed an unexpected flair for showmanship and a love for cloak-&-dagger art sleuthing. During World War II, he was decorated for ferreting out the caches where the Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went...