Word: commandments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Euphonious Combination. As if to emphasize that the figurehead Vice President would be no more than a figurehead President, the National Assem bly did not even permit Thang to choose his second-in-command. Ignoring the constitution, which authorizes a President to name his Vice President, the Assembly made the decision for him, electing Nguyen Luong Bang, about 65, a member of the party Central Committee and North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow from 1952 to 1957. Whatever other assets the new Vice President brings to his job, his election gives North Viet Nam the world...
...full-scale mock-ups of the Apollo 11 command module, the lunar module ascent stage and other space hardware may interest engineers and kiddies, but most county fairs have displayed similar NASA road shows for years...
...governed by a three-way coalition, with four Cabinet seats set aside for the Pathet Lao, eleven for the neutralists and four for the rightists. From the first, it was a shaky arrangement. In 1963, the. Pathet Lao quit the government, leaving Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Premier, in command of a neutralist-royalist coalition. In 1964, the Communists drove the neutralists from the Plain of Jars and set about creating their own "neutralist" wing from a nucleus of defectors. The Pathet Lao figure that a new coalition will be formed once peace comes to Viet Nam, and they hope...
...dismissed and which kept in office and all, amazingly, seemed to obey. Only one name was given prominence in connection with the coup-Colonel Saaduddin Abu Shweirib, who was made the army's new Chief of Staff. Shweirib, who is in his 30s, studied at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Sacked from the army in 1967 because he was suspected of republican sympathies, he has since worked as a notary public-prompting some wits to point out that he could legalize his own regime. If it is his regime. Reports in some Arab...
Darkened Zeal. Executed between the 6th and 12th centuries, the frescoes reveal an impressive command of technique-particularly for a place so remote. The style of the Nubian monks who painted them seems to have evolved from the naive manner of Egypt's Copts into more severe stylization. An unidentified deacon with basilisk eyes and a mandarin mustache shows the ability of the Nobatian artist to transform a standard Coptic portrait with a sparsity of line more Byzantine than that of the Byzantines...