Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of electing their own officials, the villages and hamlets will acquire a long-desired autonomy from Saigon. Villages, for example, will be able to retain some 40% of the taxes they collect, spend it on local public works. Since decades of nonparticipation as the pawns of arbitrary central government have given the villagers few skills to manage their own affairs, the Saigon government is providing winning village-council candidates with crash courses in the fundamentals of bookkeeping and governing...
...particular church. There is little dispute left over the last two categories. Few Catholics would argue any longer that revealed law (for instance, the Christian sacrament of marriage) or church law (for instance, the celibacy of priests) should be made part of state law. But Catholics still retain the belief that natural law, or their interpretation of it, should be embodied in human legislation-and that is the point where they clash with their critics...
...trying to get the news fast, and the officials trying to use the press to their best advantage. Often, Reston explains, a reporter will break a story about a speech the President has been planning to make, and the President will change the speech to punish the reporter and retain the element of surprise. The same is true of personnel changes in the government. If it is rumored in the press that an official is to be relieved of his duties, it usually prompts the President to keep him on his staff...
Strength & Stamina. Despite firsthand exposure to Viet Cong terrorism, many I.V.S.ers retain their distaste for the war. "We're nothing more than sugar-coating for the genocide that's going on here," argues David Gitelson, 25, a U.C.L.A. graduate and ex-G.I. now stationed in the Delta. A lanky loner who lopes around in sandals and faded Levi's, Gitelson carries his worldly possessions with him in a wheat sack, is known to the Vietnamese as "my ngheo"-the poor American. U.S. officials consider him the most effective American of all the thousands involved in Delta...
...overcome by her loss, but not immersed in bathos. From the coffin she took a lock of Kennedy's hair, writes Manchester, and as she left the East Room she was "swaying visibly." She righted herself and, "beyond consolation, wrenched by a torsion of pain," she managed to retain "the sense of purpose which had kept her going for two days...