Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sloppy Work. Frishman, whose right arm was shattered in October 1967 when his F-4C Phantom was shot down over Hanoi, said that North Vietnamese doctors had removed his elbow but not all the steel fragments. It was a sloppy operation, said Frishman, because the doctors "are willing only to do what is necessary to keep us alive." Because of his loosely dangling forearm, he was known to his fellow inmates as "The Grim Reaper...
...Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means "Friday's Child" in the Akan language, and the voting was held on Friday. The soothsayers proved right...
...long the non-junta will be content to play a caretaker role will depend not only on Costa e Silva's progress but also on the ambitions of its members. They vary considerably. Rademaker, 64, is a rigid right-winger who had helped lead the military's 1964 coup against left-leaning President Joāo Goulart, but has done little political maneuvering since. Technically, he is the senior man in the group, but he ranks an easy third in power and ambition. Souza, 63, is a hard-core rightist who is not likely to play a major...
...December, when the constitution was scrapped, Congress closed and a sweeping purge launched against critics of the military. Last week, the prospect of even a limited return to civilian rule abruptly vanished. President Arthur da Costa e Silva, 66, suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. Physicians said his prognosis was "fairly good," meaning that in time he may recover partially. But his hopes of announcing on Sept. 7, Brazil's Independence Day, a revised constitution and reopening Congress had been dashed...
...published in the October issue of American Heritage, contain some other fascinating passages, notably an account of Jackie Kennedy's state visit to India ("The President had told me that the care and management of Mrs. Kennedy involved a good deal of attention, and he is quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded in all the secrecy that would attend mass sodomy...