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Last week Tiger Song's nearly completed purge ran into unexpected opposition. Assemblyman Um Sang Sup, a member of the opposition Democratic Party, charged that Song's ruthless methods had prompted 153 officers to commit suicide rather than face courts-martial. Some, said Um, had actually taken their lives "while being questioned." The chief of staff disputed the suicide figures, but his own statistics of accomplishment were stern enough. For grafting on the job, he had fired, in the past nine months, six major generals, nine brigadiers and 1,683 other officers of field and company grade, including...
When Dr. Hunt began opening more doors and taking bars off windows, Dutchess neighbors were worried that AWOL patients would commit sex offenses or crimes of violence. In two years, there has been no such incident. Now Dr. Hunt challenges civic groups: "What Dutchess County community of more than 5,000 people has a better record than that...
...success and status. "This is not surprising," said a Harvard professor. "There is no private business that they might enter. The practice of law cannot be very appealing. What remains but science? In science a man can have an attractive living standard, and he does not have to commit himself politically...
...however, has not been limited exclusively to a few but has been adopted to a certain extent in most language classes. For example, Stein has completely revamped German B this year. Using a text published only a few months ago, based upon sucessful linguistic studies, members of the course commit a basic reading to memory, learning grammar to a large extent by osmosis. Learning becomes a "dynamic process." Sections in German B are conducted almost entirely in German, although the course is specifically intended to help students gain a greater reading than speaking knowledge; from the very moment they enter...
Running Away. For those who commit suicide, the committee recommends a special burial service. Those who are tempted or fail in an attempt should "be specially commended to the pastoral concern of the clergy," and the clergy should be "offered more help in understanding this part of their pastoral duty...