Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANHATTAN IS MISSING, by E. W. Hildick (Doubleday; $3.95). A science-fiction title, a threatening ransom note, a secret meeting, and a wild chase across Central park-all more or less in pursuit of Manhattan, a fussy Siamese...
...first phase of the withdrawal was worked out during a three-day meeting at the Hawaii headquarters of Admiral John McCain, Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. A team of 100 military and civilian Defense Department experts, who gathered in a movie theater, reviewed the already prepared top-secret folders and quickly made the decision on which troops to start pulling out of Viet Nam. The two 9th Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number...
Heavy Sentence. Negotiations finally began four weeks ago, but were kept secret, presumably to save face for the hospital management. Governor Robert Mc-Nair, for whom the strike was becoming a political embarrassment, pushed for a settlement. Incentive came from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which threatened to cut off federal financial assistance to the hospitals if they declined to rehire twelve union members who had been fired. This threat was too much even for Dr. William McCord, president of Medical College Complex and a firm opponent of union recognition...
Soviet military officials make no secret of the readiness campaign. 'First Deputy Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov recently wrote that "a straining of the U.S.S.R.'s entire military preparedness" was necessary to deal with recent Maoist provocations...
Unlike a revolutionary assault from the outside, Luttwak notes, a coup is an inside job, done by a government's own members. It involves minimal manpower and bloodshed. As in judo, the secret is to use leverage and make a state overthrow itself. Bureaucracy facilitates this by severing the loyalties that once personally bound rulers and their servants. A modern bureaucrat follows impersonal orders; if his immediate boss is subverted, the bureaucrat tends to obey orders blindly, even orders designed to topple his own government...