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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deep breath): "We will terminate operations at 95 installations with a loss of 63,000 jobs. We will save $500 million by this trimming of the defense budget." (Next breath): "We shall press for passage of laws for our war on poverty, creating new jobs. It will cost only $1 billion." (Under the breath): "We'll lose the scattered 63,000 votes, keep the consolidated depressed-area votes." Result: another sweeping mandate...
...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
...Despite the fact that Rebel Boss Gbenye and his henchmen have been driven from their capital, the fight will go on for some time. In their rapid push to save white lives, the Congolese army left big rebel pockets behind. Many pessimists talk of a "Hundred Years War." How can the rebellion be crushed? The remedy, as Tshombe sees it, is a patient formula-denounced as neo-colonial by his enemies-in which white men will hold as many key jobs as possible for as long as it takes to mold an effective army and an efficient administration. His refusal...
After all, U.S. public life is filled with allusions to God-"This nation under God" (Gettysburg Address), "Great God, our king" (America), "So help me, God" (congressional oath of office). The Supreme Court itself opens with the cry: "God save the United States and this honorable court." But the Supreme Court's subsequent bans on public school prayers in 1962 and 1963 led many Americans to think that the mere word "God" had suddenly become unconstitutional. And two agnostics were already suing New York's Commissioner Allen on the ground that the amended pledge imposed "compulsion...
...work-would be leading lives of fruitless despair and frustration." Patients who had been in mental hospitals so long that all hope for them had been abandoned have shown marked improvement on the "psychic energizers" developed by Dr. Kline or resulting from his work. * How many lives the drugs save among suicidal patients can never be known...