Word: systemics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been partners for the past 33 months in the black and red Grand Coalition, the campaign accented their deep differences. In fact, during the campaign's final week, a dispute between the two major parties threatened to unsettle not only German financial affairs but the world monetary system as well. Betting on an upset victory by the Socialists and the prospect of a resulting upward revaluation of the mark -which the Socialists favor-speculators flooded West Germany with nearly $600 million in foreign currency in three days. Kiesinger sought to stem the speculation by closing the money exchanges...
Quickly, the Communists moved to curb inflation, suppress bandits and warlords, rehabilitate industry and the transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...
...alleged double agent named Thai Khac Chuyen. Whatever the reasons, the murder trials of the Green Beret officers that are supposed to begin later this month could turn into the most sensational courts-martial in U.S. history. The result may be the severest test to date of the judicial system that has governed the military for almost 20 years-the Uniform Code of Military Justice (U.C.M.J...
...Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered down that the Old Man wanted such and such to happen. And, miracle of miracles, it always did." Within this system, a career officer assigned as defense counsel often helps the miracle along by pleading his client guilty. "There is no such thing as a truly vigorous attempt to defend your client in the military," complains a military lawyer in California, "except for those few willing to be branded as renegades...
...take the case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private, is not likely to appreciate all the notoriety. The savvy lawyers on the defense team could easily bend the system to turn the accused into heroes...