Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Organizational Nightmare. Covering every phase of Defense Department operations, the panel found the Pentagon an organizational nightmare in which conflicting loyalties, vaguely defined responsibilities and excessive centralization of authority hamper civilian control and prevent efficient operation. "It's just an amorphous lump with nobody in charge of anything," said Fitzhugh at a news conference. "There is nobody you can point your finger at if anything goes wrong, and there is nobody you can pin a medal on if it goes right, because everything is everybody's business. What is everybody's business is nobody's business...
...Middle East, the Rogers plan still faces a formidable threat from the Arab side. It comes from the fedayeen, the Palestinian commandos who live and fight on the soil of Israel's neighbors but feel bound by none of their policies-especially any that might formally recognize Israeli control over a single foot of the Palestinian homeland...
...bailiff of a large farm in the Santa Comba Dão country of central Portugal, Salazar studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...
...Japan had forthwith surrendered, how different would have been the shape and mood of the postwar world? The framers of the Franck Report argued that international control of nuclear armaments-such as later suggested in the Baruch Plan before the U.N. in 1946-would have been much easier to achieve, and the argument seems tenable. A humane precedent would have been set, and the U.S. would have established a standard of trustworthiness even among those who had no will to give it trust, just as later, with the Marshall Plan, it would earn a reputation for generosity even among...
Avoiding Advocacy. Coverage concentrates heavily on housing and education, but also includes politics, poverty and welfare programs, the arts, and trends toward community control. Increasingly the service has been producing stories on such sensitive subjects as the police, the drug scene and private enterprise efforts in the ghetto. CNS was the first to report the occupation of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican version of the Black Panthers. A CNS report recently led to a story in the Times about the head of a small clinic who was about to be drafted; his induction, subsequently deferred, would...