Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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DISARMAMENT: Though the U.N.'s Geneva Disarmament Committee has sponsored treaties on the peaceful uses of the seabed and outer space, the major milestones of arms control-the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968-were initially worked out by the U.S. and the Soviets. The prospects for future arms control depend on initiatives by Washington and Moscow...
HEALTH: More hits. The World Health Organization's global disease-eradication programs have made considerable progress in the control of malaria and other diseases...
...Guns are frequently easier to obtain in the southern part of the U.S.S.R., however, because of less rigid control and small-arms factories located in the area. Workers smuggle weapons out of the plants and sell them on the black market...
...protect peasants from Communist attack. By 1966 President Johnson was referring to pacification as "the other war," or "the struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people." Whatever its name, the object of pacification for nearly two decades has been to wrest rural areas from Viet Cong control and bring them under the aegis of the Saigon government. With U.S. troops continuing their withdrawal-President Nixon last week announced that the troop level would decline by another 40,000 to 344,000 by Christmas-pacification has assumed ever-increasing importance in determining the allegiance of the country...
Alphabetical Ratings. After the Communists' 1968 Tet offensive, U.S. and South Vietnamese officials cast a critical eye on their Hamlet Evaluation System (H.E.S.), which was supposed to determine the relative extent of both the government and V.C. control. The system was found to be misleading. Districts were often shamelessly gerrymandered to create impressions of progress that had no relation to reality. A complex new scheme was devised that requires field advisers to answer no fewer than 149 multiple-choice questions; the replies are fed into a computer in Saigon, which digests them and then prints out alphabetical ratings...