Word: opener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeed in destroying the bureaucratic system, but it is an open question whether he can now create an alternative system through which he can govern China and promote its industrialization. At present, he must rely largely on the army to help him run the country. Outside China, Maoism commands the allegiance of only one ruling party, in Albania, and a handful of insignificant parties (including those in New Zealand, Burma, Thailand). But Maoist factions and splinter parties exist in many countries, and Mao has become a hero to the New Left...
...matter what happens to the Arab world or the whole world, we will keep fighting to leave our tents and go home. Whoever opposes our fight will have to fight us. If the world thinks the commando movement is superficial, it is much mistaken. It is the only way open to us to go home...
...language of the majority opinion leaves open the possibility that a Supreme Court composed of members with different views may some day dilute the impact of the O'Callahan decision by defining broadly the kinds of offenses that are in some way service-connected. Nevertheless, the opinion establishes a strong precedent for wider federal court review of military tribunals in the future. That sentiment was best summarized by one sentence in last week's decision: "History teaches that expansion of military discipline beyond its proper domain carries with it a threat to liberty...
With that ironic understatement, a doctor at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston last week summarized an increasing concern among some scientists that returning astronauts may contaminate the earth with strange and perhaps dangerous bugs. His statement added fuel to a controversy that broke into the open last month when it was revealed that NASA had relaxed its elaborate quarantine plans for the Apollo 11 crew (TIME...
...lunar surface will leave their boots and gloves behind on the moon. Before they emerge from the spacecraft in the Pacific, the crew will have vacuumed the interior, collecting the swept-up material in canisters containing a chemical absorbent. Instead of climbing through the command module's open hatch and into a raft before donning their biological isolation garments, the astronauts will remain inside the spacecraft until a frogman opens the hatch, tosses the garments inside, and then closes it again. They will change into their bug-containing outfits and step into a raft filled with disinfectant. Then...