Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen in Austin, 60 miles away. Johnson, everyone said, would be a whirlwind. With his gargantuan energy and an ego to match, he would be into everything-buying up banks and newspapers, pulling the strings of Texas politics, holding rambling press conferences on everything from cattle prices to Republican snafus...
Diversion of able-bodied Biafrans to defense has weakened further Biafra's agricultural output. Dislocation of markets and transportation snafus have spurred inflation to astronomical heights...
...farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
Eighteen of the poor were arrested for unlawful assembly on Capitol Hill. Two hundred young toughs, mostly from Chicago and Detroit, were bounced from the 15-acre tent city for drinking, stealing and, as the Rev. James Bevel put it, "beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their...
...Viet Cong's campaign against pacification is a new drive being made by the Allies. Last year the pacification program was not much of a success: it managed to secure only a few hundred of South Viet Nam's 12,000 hamlets, was crippled by severe organizational snafus. This year the Allies have launched a new effort to make the program work, as evidenced by the appointment two weeks ago of General William Westmoreland to take overall control of the pacification effort. The move will enable the U.S. to coordinate troop movements so that its forces can both...