Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unbending political attitudes alienated so many Brazilians that the military men felt isolated and unappreciated (see following story). In Bolivia, Barrientos' army-backed regime has brought peace to the tin mines on whose exports the country's economic health depends. Yet his somewhat heavy-handed rule has infuriated and alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock-tossing protests against his regime. In Argentina, General Ongania has escaped severe criticism because his military regime's Draconian measures have managed to arrest the country's economic decline, bringing a collective sigh...
...least two philosophies of governing. One follows the familiar military tradition of moving in when things go off course, then moving out again once matters have been set straight. The second group, deeply interested in economic growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military in Brazil-and is unhappy with what it considers a more lenient posture by Costa e Silva. The old marshal therefore declared himself to be "a companion in arms" who "not even...
...accepts its failures with a dignified stoicism-perhaps still hopeful that it may be given an important new role once the present war ends. U.S. planners do not rule that out-but only if the commission can be thoroughly restructured and strengthened to guarantee genuine compliance on all sides...
Strange Bodies. Last week it became evident that the slowdown observed in the Crab may well be the rule rather than the exception among pulsars. Completing highly precise measurements on the first four original pulsars that they had discovered, British astronomers found that these, too, were running down -at the barely perceptible rate of about one beat in 10 million every year...
...fare that is now available free. Pay operators, for ex ample, could not in most cases telecast movies more than two years old; or series-type shows with continuing casts; or the latest of any sports event that had been telecast in the past two years. That rule would bar pay TV from scheduling such potentially profitable events as the World Series or the Super Bowl-or most sports, for that matter. A possible exception: home-town pro football games, now blacked...