Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teetering between the rival factions in Kenya's one-party government, President Jomo Kenyatta for months let pro-Communist Vice President Oginga Odinga have his way more often than seemed wise. For one thing, Moscow had financed the Lumumba Institute seven miles outside Nairobi, providing two Russian instructors in the Leninist art of political action. Then Odinga negotiated a deal for a shipload of Soviet arms for Kenya, which the Russians seemed only too eager to provide absolutely free of charge. Odinga meanwhile hustled around making anti-Western speeches, and verbally sniping at the more moderate members of Kenyatta...
...addition to the hawk-dove controversy, Viet Nam is debated on other levels. Critics complain that U.S. policymakers do not have enough facts upon which to base wise decisions or, if they do, they are keeping those facts from the public. And the press takes a beating for not supplying the facts that the Administration is accused of hiding. In self-defense, reporters in Viet Nam complain that the U.S. Government and military are making their jobs tougher than necessary with unwarranted censorship and restrictions. Last week, reporting from Saigon, TIME Southeast Asia Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch assessed the situation...
...ITALY. All foreigners must register with the Italian police (or let their hotel do it) within three days of arrival, and it is wise to carry identity papers at all times. On the whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown...
Whom was it wise to eulogize
...institution of junior generals is a wise, but only a first, step. The department should now turn its attention to the Soc Rel curricula. Formal distribution requirements within the field are needed, for all concentrators. Much more important, something must be done with sophomore tutorial, which now serves no purpose and earns no course credit. The present, very vague guidelines for the tutorial should give way to a definite syllabus, providing adequate interdisciplinary groundwork for the new junior generals...