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...difficulties of making Bill Rogers come across to the public is that it generally sees him at his worst. Put a battery of microphones and television cameras in front of him and this easygoing man will tighten up and become self-conscious." Instead, the Bill Rogers whom Diplomatic Correspondent Herman Nickel usually sees is a pleasant, relaxed man who enjoys talking, and just as important, listening to the newsmen who cover the State Department...
...dictatorship calmly. More than just a few regarded its tough stance with approval. Velasco shut the universities, dissolved Congress and promised a shake-up of the Supreme Court, which has sided with his opponents in the tax-collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls and to fill the jails with indiscriminate arrests. Among those seized was TIME Correspondent...
...Laos, North Vietnamese forces overran and held the southern provincial capital of Saravane, which has for two years been a U.S. air-supplied island within the Communist-held countryside. The city's fall could well indicate that the Communists, who already control most of northeastern Laos, intend to tighten their grip on the country's southern reaches. In South Viet Nam, the Communists continued to step up the fighting in the northernmost I Corps with shellings, sapper raids and the bloodiest assault on civilians in more than two years (see following story...
...bloody labor rioting last year at the industrial city of Cordoba in which 22 persons were killed, Ongania's power began to crumble. While the country was beset by a wave of crime and violence and a gradual return of inflation, Ongania's only prescription was to tighten censorship and complain that Argentines suffered from "an excess of freedom." The final blow may well have been the loss of prestige that Ongania suffered by the kidnaping two weeks ago of a former President, Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, who ruled the country for 2½ years following Peron...
...Sherill's bleak picture of the obstacles to reforming the system of military justice. Pointing out that changing the way the army handles its own discipline would require a revolution in its structure and mentality, Sherill suggests the obvious solutions. Move important cases into the civilian courts. Tighten up the Uniform Code of Military Justice to get rid of the vague language that sanctions arbitrary sallies against the constitutional rights of servicemen-sections like Article 134 which prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." Sherill is also well aware that with the House...