Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proof of that came during last month's fierce fighting around Plei Me -a South Viet Nam terminus of the trail. North Vietnamese fought fiercely to keep the U.S. 1st Cavalry out of the mountains above Plei Me, expending vast supplies of ammunition in the process. The any-cost resistance convinced many Americans that the area is a major stockpile site of the Red forces...
Organization X. Although the "proof" of his Communism consisted of nothing more than that he had helped Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal write...
...Food for Peace" as leverage to coax recipient nations toward wiser economic policies (see THE NATION). Though Indian Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam desperately wants a new long-term U.S. commitment on grain shipments, Washington insists on delivering only on a month-by-month basis until India presents convincing proof that its next five-year plan will modernize its famine-prone farm system. And though Washington won't say so, it may well be that no long-term agreement for U.S. wheat will be forthcoming until India complies with the United Nations order to pull back its troops from...
...argument is the Fifth Amendment guarantee that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." That guarantee establishes a system of justice based on accusation, not inquisition. In essence, it commands Government to prove guilt by independent evidence, not by coercing the proof out of the defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation-the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict...
...explained that the "litany" of the last generation in foreign policy can still be heard. He used as proof a speech by Thomas Mann, former Under Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, which alludes to the "implacable conflict" with the Communists and denies the existence of pluralism in the Communist bloc...