Word: sion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work with the Marines in the northern provinces, where the Communist pressure has been heaviest in recent months, and that at least one division is needed in the populous Mekong Delta (there are now only two U.S. brigades there), where the war is more or less stalemated. Another divi sion would come in handy in the central provinces above Saigon. Westmoreland's goal is, as he puts it, "to maintain more pressure on more places...
...real problem is one of attitudes -- both of and toward police -- the commis- sion said. It proposed community relations units to reduce distrust and urged police departments to screen prospective officers more carefully and supervise them more strictly...
...speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...
While the West sees and appreciates this aspect of the falling-out, there is an other, lesser known and potentially more dangerous side: the rising of ten sion along the long Sino-Soviet border...
...rumors of his impending resignation had flown through the Irish Republic for months. Last week it finally came. In a long-awaited press conference in Dublin's Parliament building, 67-year-old Prime Minister Sean Le-mass announced his reluctant conclu sion that "responsibility should now pass to a younger man." The next day in the same smoky conference room, the 71 members of Lemass' Fianna Fail Party selected their new Prime Minister and Taoiseach (leader of the clan): former Finance Minister John Mary Lynch...