Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wishes of his own Congress." Some officials in Salisbury are convinced that Washington and London will insist on a high price for recognition and an end to sanctions. Among the possible demands: the complete and final retirement of Smith, who is believed to be angling for the powerful war post of Minister of Defense and Combined Operations; another round of elections, this time under international supervision and with the participation of the Patriotic Front. Since these conditions, if met, could easily lead to Muzorewa's downfall, his acquiescence seems unlikely...
Starting with Blue Cross in the 1930s, and continuing through the post-World War II trend for employers to provide medical insurance for their workers, private insurers have picked up a giant chunk of hospital-doctor bills. In 1965 Congress chipped in, providing Medicare payments for those over 65 and Medicaid assistance for the poor. There are still gaps in the coverage: the 20% or so of the bill that the typical Medicare patient must pay can be a severe burden; the long illness that exhausts inadequate insurance benefits is a terror to the middle class. Nonetheless, the system...
...university professor and correspondent for The Washington Post, was forced to give up both of his careers because of his political and intellectual beliefs. He was a journalist with Chosun Ibo, a leading Seoul daily, and has published a collection of essays entitled Idolatry and Reason as well as A Dialogue With Eight Hundred Million People. He now sits in prison in Seoul, waiting out a three-year sentence, magnanimously reduced to two years on appeal...
DIED. Charles Frankel, 61, Columbia professor of philosophy, founder of the new National Humanities Center in North Carolina and Assistant Secretary of State under Lyndon Johnson (1965-67) who resigned his post in protest against the Viet Nam War; of gunshot wounds apparently inflicted by robbers who also shot and killed his wife; in Bedford Hills...
...constitute a "deliberate concealment measure." Without such a provision, said Warnke sternly, the treaty could not be properly verified; moreover it could not ?indeed, should not?be ratified. "I'm prepared to be criticized," said the much criticized Warnke, who had announced that he was resigning from his post and returning to private law practice, "but I'm not prepared to be ridiculed." This time Semyonov conceded the point...