Word: within
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most courted combatant in the history of war may well be the Communist in South Viet Nam-or rather, the potential Communist defector. Bombarded with leaflets promising a better life on the other side, the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese fighter who comes in from the heat can often within min utes collect tangible rewards at a government reception center. The rewards include fresh food, medical care and cash. In the four years since the government launched its Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program, 83,000 Viet Cong have defected. That is the equivalent of 33 enemy regiments...
Even worse, the church lacks the ecclesiastical manpower to serve the sheep still within the fold. The ratio of priests to laymen in Latin America is 1 to 5,600 (in the U.S. it is 1 to 785). The Catholic seminary in La Paz, Bolivia, currently has only one seminarian; when he is ordained, he will be the institution's first new priest in four years. Almost half of the continent's clergy are foreigners, most of them Spaniards, Italians and Irish-Americans. More often than not, they are better-educated and more zealous than the native priests...
...Away. Even the most liberal Northern and Western schools have far fewer than the 11% black students that would match the proportion of Negroes in the population. Many have had "quota" systems for Negroes and also Jews. Most Southern med schools accept only token admissions to stay within the law governing federal support funds. Thus the vast majority of the nation's Negro doctors have been trained in two century-old medical schools created especially for them: Howard University's in Washington, and Meharry in Nashville...
...simple reason that in the past five years every one of the stations he has advised has waxed bigger in ratings and revenues. Los Angeles' KHJ, for example, rose from twelfth to No. 1 half a year after he moved in. Tulsa's KAKC doubled its rating within two months, and in the last year has doubled again...
...government-but never again as a dictator." As proof of his intentions, he brought in as his top adviser one of the ministry's chief antagonists: Gerald Antoine, rector of Orleans-Tours University. Says Antoine: "A good way to take over the Bastille is to be installed within...