Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...
...students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth rate have shifted...
...root problem is that the market is still locked to the 18th century practice of shuffling millions of paper stock certificates back and forth among investors. What market managers need, and are trying to achieve, is a completely automated system that would do away with the fancy certificates but record the transactions of every investor on a master file, like deposits and withdrawals in bank accounts...
Among his major campaign promises, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu pledged himself to root out government corruption at the national and provincial levels. Last week Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees and a recent visitor to Viet Nam, delivered his own progress report on Thieu's efforts. He painted a grim picture. "The government of South Viet Nam is infested with corruption," Ken nedy told the World Affairs Council of Boston. "It is almost impossible to go to Viet Nam and speak with any can did American or South Vietnamese citi...
...root for the Yankees in the bleachers...