Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What I cannot understand is why Americans are getting into such a tizzy about a single chief of staff. We have had one in England for a long time, and he has never shown the slightest predilection of becoming a czar...
Second Term. After quelling last week's only big outburst of street fighting (20 dead) in Tripoli, the army left the road open so that the leader of the Tripoli rebels could motor unmolested for coffee and peace talks with Chief of Staff Brigadier General Fuad Shehab in Beirut. But efforts to bring the warring parties to compromise came to nothing. U.S. weapons kept arriving for Chamoun's security forces, and rebel bombs kept exploding in Beirut's marketplaces, to keep shops shut and the general strike going...
...have been with the paper for more than 25 years, 30 for more than 50. Globe Editor Larry Winship has fired only one editorial staffer* in 44 years. Whatever the cause, says one managing editor, "we have too many 9-to-5 reporters. For every five people on your staff, you have one newspaperman. The others are hanging on his back...
...that there is still a case for Dominican Republic aid. Foreign aid advocates swallowed hard, knowing well that Trujillo Jr., a lieutenant general in command of the Dominican Republic's two-bit air force and a student at the U.S. Army's prestige-making Command and General Staff College, is a prime example of the kind of irresponsible foolishness that gives any real enemy of foreign aid just the kind of potent ammunition that makes headlines. Flying into Washington the same day for a nightclub appearance, Zsa Zsa Gabor quickly dismissed the Congress with impeccable style...
...little chance of the Assembly's calling De Gaulle on his own terms. But how stood the rest of France? The armed forces still stationed in metropolitan France were a question mark. Late in the week two air force generals serving on France's joint chiefs of staff were placed under house arrest, and next day France's No. i soldier. General Paul Ely, chief of the joint chiefs, resigned in protest. The nation's 280.000 hardbitten police, who constitute a virtual army in themselves, still seemed loyal to the Fourth Republic. Paris, ringed...