Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PANAMA. Kissinger has long urged that the U.S. give up absolute control of the Panama Canal and the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone, a quasi-U.S. colony created under a 1903 treaty. But a flag-waving lobby in Congress has stubbornly opposed renegotiation of the 19th century-style arrangement. Two weeks ago, in a move that shocked the Administration as unprecedented and possibly unconstitutional, the House voted to withhold any appropriations to pay for negotiations...
...study of language has become something of a free-fire zone in recent years, with everyone who has the slightest interest in the subject eager to take a few pot shots at such age-old questions as "What is meaning?" Some public interest and amusement has been spurred by the intramural squabbling of Chomskians and neo Chomskians, generative semanticists and Modified Standard Theoreticians; and the narrow, doctrinaire character of those disputes has spurred people with a broader interest in language to join the fray. Walker Percy, a novelist (The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins), sides with those who consider contemporary...
Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...
...Americans especially, the elements are painfully familiar: a country divided since World War II into implacably hostile sides, one Communist and the other capitalist; a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two; a long and bitter history of skirmishes, provocations, threats and commando raids that could culminate in an all-out war. This is not Viet Nam, however, but that other Asian country where Asians and Americans have fought and died since World War II: Korea...
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...